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Cyborg is and has always been a niche character. Nobody is showing up to that theater to see Cyborg. Whedon was mandated to shave 90 minutes off that movie's runtime and get it to theater by November. Absolutely zero wiggle room on that deadline because the studio execs only got their multi-million dollar bonuses that year if the movie reached theaters by November.Just look at the Whedon vs Snyder versions of Cyborg to see how dirty Whedon did Cyborg in his version. He took him from being an actual character with an arc and purpose to being basically totally useless. It is similar to how Finn (John Boyega) got character assassinated in the later prequel Star Wars trilogy after the backlash against the hinted interracial romance between him and Rey.
If you got to take 90 minutes out of a movie you sure ain't taking it from one of the Big Three. Bats/Supes/WW are nearly untouchable.
So that leaves Cyborg, Aquaman and Flash to take screen time from. Flash is not far behind the Big Three in popularity and has the added advantage of being the only real option for humor...humor that the execs also mandated be injected into the movie. Aquaman is being played by the relatively popular Jason Momoa and I think...at the time of filming...was already in early production for his Solo movie. Nobody being more surprised than me at how well that landed, by the way.
So that leaves the niche character(being played by a relative unknown) who isn't even all that popular in the comics or cartoons. I don't think Cyborg has ever been able to sustain a solo title. He's a decent supporting character and that's about all he'll ever be unless a legitimately good writer ever takes the helm on him. Ray accusing Whedon of being a racist was every bit as stupid as 99.9% of racism accusations in the last decade or two.
Whedon is a total sleazebag who...like most male feminists...hides behind the cloak of feminism to mask his own gross behavior toward women. That is a totally fair and accurately proven accusation to level against the man. He is not a racist.