I still admire Marvel for the risks they took and the success they achieved, and created some of the most fun and enjoyable popcorn flicks of all time. All the criticism nowadays is fully justified, but people forget that Marvel took huge risks making films with B-list rejects that only nerds cared about, funded it themselves, achieved mainstream success, and built a film empire that made all the other studios seethe with envy.

Re: people like Martin Scorsese, if the MCU is just mass-market corporatized junk, why did every single attempt to copy it fail? Kevin Feige had the simple idea of mining 60 years of comic books for the best storylines and turning them into films, and it worked great. Now they are failing due to switching to woke crap from the entryists that have been sabotaging the comics since the early 2000s (Miles Morales was the canary in that coal mine). Doesn't change that characters like Iron Man and Thor or projects like the Avengers were considered risky bets and doomed to fail, but succeeded brilliantly.