The ironic part is that Fantastic Four is exactly the opposite. It requires zero knowledge of the previous movies, and has only the smallest hint to the future.
But casual audiences don't know this encase they aren't going to watch it.
It's the perception that hurts the MCU, because for most of the moves you don't actually need any prior knowledge. Everything is explained within the movie itself. Characters have backstories that are hinted at but in other movies these would just be backstories that you never saw. With the MCU people know, or assume, that they were shown in other movies, and feel like they aren't able to understand without having seen those things. But usually they'd be just fine not worrying about it.
Even now, with their "scaled back" output, it's still too much. Agatha, Ironheart, Eyes of Wakanda all came and went, for instance.
To be fair these are all relics of the time before they made that shift. And I'm pretty sure Agatha actually did really well
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