Marvel & DC went woke. So people switched to manga.
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Absolutely not. The desire for resolutions and endings is always there, problem is those who keep the show going has financial interest to keep delaying it for as long as possible.
Franchises are not allowed to have satisfying endings.
Why? Because consumers will leave satisfied. Hard to keep getting money out of them if they leave satisfied don't you think?
It's something that has struck me as I looked back on Warcraft universe as a whole after Shadowlands and Legion ending.
We just couldn't leave Shadowlands happy and close book on it. Zovaal just HAD to drop this "what is to come" quote just to plant that itchy bug at the back of your mind. What is to come? The Void Lords? Find out later so keep paying attention to our franchise so we can have this tiny chance of you resubbing.
We just couldn't deliver a definite killing blow to Sargeras and close book on him. Sargeras just HAD to be imprisoned instead and the Burning Legion is, we pressume, scattered. What is to come after? Find out later so keep paying attention to our franchise so we can have this tiny chance of you resubbing.
They will keep moving the goal posts over and over again through plot twist or open endings just to keep you wondering what will come next. And if that will involve slow deterioration of the franchise until one last bit of engagement and good will is exhausted, then so be it.
Another egregious example was LOST. It was insanely popular so it kept just printing money, so they threw out the ending they originally planned and tacked several extra seasons on the show, with increasingly retarded plots. It's been a decade and I am still mad about the ending. Sawyer's dad called it out in the first season, and it seemed like a reasonable explanation at the time, but then there was a mysterious bunker with an old computer and a hydrogen bomb and Egyptian statues and a smoke monster and a pendulum and then in the final episode, HA HA HA NONE OF THAT MATTERED AT ALL, SAWYER'S DAD WAS RIGHT, LOOK AT US SUBVERTING YOUR EXPECTATIONS. Blergh.