Kinda difficult to mourn their loss under the oppressive regime of the Empire and the propaganda pronouncing them to be traitors and that anyone helping them is also a traitor. People that mourned their absence either were quiet about it for self preservation, or ed the rebellion.

I agree that Marvel has a high bar to clear with Doomsday and Secret Wars, and ironically even if they manage to do that people are still going to belabor how they flopped the multiverse. Even if all the threads tie together neatly and beautifully into the final masterpiece it will probably still cruise right over the heads of 90% of internet warriors.

They probably should have slowed the pace rather than diving hard into phase 4 and 5 but I can understand why they wanted to strike while the iron was hot.

I feel like a lot of 4 and 5 was about showing various fallout from Endgame and the snap, and it's interesting but honestly I feel they could have kept most of that to grounded Disney+ shows for the invested fans who want to chew on every morsel of lore they can get and make the movies bigger focused. I loved many of the Disney+ shows, but I agree they shouldn't have glossed over them for the people who didn't watch them in the follow up movies like Multiverse of Madness etc...

Keep Disney+ shows on grounded topics like Hawkeye and Falcon and keep meta concepts like Loki (even though it was done beautifully) to the big screen. Let's be honest, Loki is a phenomenal series, but it could have easily been a phenomenal movie, too (with a bit of fluff and extra edited, I doubt many but the most dedicated fans would watch an 8 hour+ film)

I thought about this as well, and I think they could take it all one step further. What's the biggest problem with the multiverse concept? Infinite variations mean somewhere in the multiverse is a solution to every problem that can be solved, thus being able to navigate the multiverse limits the impact of any issue involving a single universe.

I think the TVA was the right direction with insufficient power due to the limitations of Kang (He Who Remains) himself and his own desire for control. Introduce the God of Stories Loki and now we can begin to build the TVA as it should have been. A multiversal police force recruiting the strongest variants that breach the multiverse and protect each unique universe from outsiders like Kang, Dr. Doom, and Wanda. MVA maybe, MultiVersal Avengers.

They have already hinted that the Watcher will be revealed in First Steps, and he's already begun assembling a team of heroes to build around, combine his knowledge and abilities to oversee the multiverse with Loki and the TVA's ability to navigate it and an Avengers level team to police it and you've got the seeds for a MCU multiverse in which each unique universe is protected from incursions and outsider threats. Powerful variants that grow to navigate the multiverse can be recruited or dealt with as they make themselves known.

Of course this is likely irrelevant as x-men are probably not going to be involved before the reboot, except possibly in Secret Wars but then all bets are off whether they're good or bad.