I don't know. I would argue that New 52 Supes might have actually been more powerful than Rebirth Supes. Under Grant Morrison, New 52 Superman arguably exhibited abilities that the character hadn't been using since the Silver Age. For instance, in Action Comics Vol. 2 #3, Clark has a nightmare which is actually a picture perfect memory of Brainiac shrinking Kandor when he was an infant. This is reminiscent of Superman's Super-Memory power from the Silver Age. Back then, Superman could perfectly remember everything from his life including when he was a baby much like New 52 Superman was doing in that nightmare. In contrast, Rebirth Superman had to rely on the Fortress of Solitude's archives to remind him of his past in "The New World" story, and this was after he had been "made whole" by merging with New 52 Supes.
In Action Comics Vol. 2 #12, N52 Supes speed reads medicals texts, memorizes them, and performs life saving surgery on Lois. That suggests Super-Intelligence as well as reinforces Super-Memory. In that same issue, he's also reads a flash drive using his X-Ray Vision which means he was speed reading and translating digital code. In AC V. 2 #14, he unifies gravity and electromagnetism by running 10 gigawatts through his own body.
Even after Morrison left the book, there's the fact that N52 Supes had the Solar Flare ability which Re Supes hasn't exhibited yet. Also the fact that it took the combined factors of Kryptonite poisoning, the Solar Pits of Apokolips, and the might of Rao to finally put N52 Supes away is pretty impressive.
If you look at it that way then, N52 Supes had three powers that Re Supes hasn't exhibited (Super-Intelligence, Super Memory, and the Solar Flare), so at the very least N52 Supes had a more varied set of powers. Past that, can you really say that ReBirth Supes has accomplished any feats that are that much more impressive than anything N25 Supes did?
Honestly, I think the whole line about N52 Superman being weaker is a bunch of garbage.
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