If the rummors that the whole point of these two movies is to reset the MCU so RDjr can continue playing Iron Man are true, everyone at Disney is insane.
They're just so desperate and creatively bankrupt, and this is the sole move they can think of. Key jingling and memberberries, and mining whatever Ryan Reynolds made popular.
It's too late to course-correct now, it was too late 5 years ago, but they were far too arrogant to realize this. I imagine the only reason they're putting White men front and center again is that they got a call from corporate that heads would start rolling if they don't unfuck the mess they've made.
It takes a special kind of stupid to have a clear blueprint of what not to do with capeshit, and still somehow managing to deliberately smash into every branch of that particular tree on the way down.
- Don't replace popular capeshit characters with women or minorities.
-If you do replace them make sure the replacement will be liked by audiences.
-Don't force audiences to have to do homework by having to watch hundreds of hours of TV shows, movies, read whatever dogshit books and comics and other tie-ins you've brightened humanity with in the past 20 years.
-Don't introduce endless alternate realities, clones, copies, time travel or other narrative retcons, make events and character deaths matter.
MCU will go down in history as one of the most disastrous IP fumbles in the history of the human race. George Lucas managed to keep Star Wars a moneyprinting machine for 40 years, Disney couldn't even keep it in their pants for 20, shitting out Captain Marvel and signifying the end of the IP.