Glenn

People are such spoiled brats. They want the highs of Avengers: Endgame with every MCU movie now, ignoring that it took 11 years to build toward that. So anything that doesn't deliver that is called a disappointment and a failure. The MCU tries to build on the other characters, and people don't care. They introduce new central characters, and people shrug. That's not to say that Marvel Studios hasn't made some mistakes, mind you. But people just need to calm down, step back, and let them cook.

And as far as No Way Home and "cameo porn" goes, the MCU has largely pulled it off in a great way (Dr. Strange and The Multiverse of Madness being the exception for its egregiously quick disposal of The Illuminati and its variant cameos.) Is it fan service? Sure. But it's also the studios acknowledging its past and the old characters that millions have fond memories and emotional attachments to by making them relevant to the current stories that are being told. No Way Home and Deadpool & Wolverine make those characters and stories matter in the grand scheme of things. They're no longer brushed aside or ignored, and it makes the viewers who watched their movies feel validated for being emotionally invested in Tobey Maguire's Spider-Man and Wesley Snipes' Blade 20 years ago. They know that their time spent with those movies has not wasted.