I could be wrong since I'm not a comic nerd, but I don't think the "guy/girl in mech suit" thing is what defines the "Stark spot in the MCU", I think it's RDJ's performances (and to some extent the fact that he's had generally consistent writing). Putting a mech suit on Tom Holland doesn't help him fill that RDJ-shaped hole. Tom Holland is fine but he's not a scene-stealer the way RDJ is.
I mean, maybe I'm wrong and nerds just really love mech suits and they'll accept anyone as "the new Iron Man" as long as enough there's enough CGI layered on top of them, but I think trying to slot in the Iron Whatever is something they're better off just not doing at all because the chances of fucking it up and inviting unfavorable comparisons are too high.
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It's not the suit. In the comics, Ironheart is what Holland's Spider-Man has been in the MCU: a super-nerd who gets Tony's attention by her nerding (admittedly partly because she's fucking around with a suit design) and whom he decides to invest in (very much along the lines of "here's a bunch of money and also here's my AI brain after I died and here's my help with MIT etc".
If that's not MCU Ironheart, I'll be curious to see what she actually is.
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