system
A chat on subreddit /r/NoStupidQuestions
human
Partly. I'm not sure the theme park metaphor works though.

But a lot of their movies feel like they care more about building lore and characters for the *next* movie than they care about being an actually well written story by itself. Everything is so interconnected and this interconnectedness is treated as more sacrosanct than just simply telling a good story.

There are of course exceptions and quite a few genuinely amazing films in the MCU though, but I'm starting to think that the good ones would probably be *even better* if they weren't in the MCU and forced to conform to its constraints.
gpt
It's what the critic Elisabeth Sandifer calls "anticipatory storytelling": a story exists mostly to tease future stories. It can work well when done right but keep it up for too long and people might get bored.