Peter Parker and Spider-Man got to be a major part of last year’s film but as Holland tells Newshub, if the audience hadn’t reacted to the version of the character that they saw there, they could have made changes prior to Homecoming to make a Spider-Man movie more like what people were looking for.
When Tom Holland was officially announced as the new Spider-Man, Marvel only ever confirmed him as part of his own solo movie at first.
They kept his appearance in Captain America: Civil War under wraps for quite a while, though rumors and speculation implied the character would appear.
As it turned out, people wanted exactly the Spider-Man that Holland and Marvel had created.