Its tiptoeing around the real issue, because he knows saying it out loud would probably get him on some shitlists and reveal the quiet part out loud to the masses.

Which is that the MCU heavily abused its interconnected nature to force you to see a lot of shitty movies that you wouldn't have because you needed that part of the story. Even if they ended up being irrelevant you wouldn't know that until well after. It was a builtin sunken cost fallacy that basically ensured nearly every pre-Infinity War movie was going to be successful. With the only necessary part sometimes being literally a small clip in the credits.

In reality a solid half of the movies likely wouldn't have stood on their own and kept riding on the promise of future ones.

Its tiptoeing around the real issue, because he knows saying it out loud would probably get him on some shitlists and reveal the quiet part out loud to the masses.

Which is that the MCU heavily abused its interconnected nature to force you to see a lot of shitty movies that you wouldn't have because you needed that part of the story. Even if they ended up being irrelevant you wouldn't know that until well after. It was a builtin sunken cost fallacy that basically ensured nearly every pre-Infinity War movie was going to be successful. With the only necessary party sometimes being literally a small clip in the credits.

In reality a solid half of the movies likely wouldn't have stood on their own and kept riding on the promise of future ones.