Wait those movies have plots?
Were really well made. Kevin Feige just turned 50, and it shows. He lost his edge.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a8BJ8AufQt8
(arguable She-Hulk spoiler)
I'm going to exaggerate a bit but not much. I have "that friend", I'm sure we all do, who insists there's a reason to watch whichever 5 movie before this one. But it's a movie about fighting. Those 2 minutes of development matters so little to anything that makes the movie what it is. And it was designed for people to be able to follow without having watched anything before it.
So sure they have plot. But it's completely inconsequential. Because fighting.
Theme, characters that aren’t “cool quippy person” or “somewhat alien quippy person”, a message they not just set up but then commit to, use of action for anything other than spectacle, et c. Lots of story-things (to say nothing of film craft—score, scene-setting and shot choices) of other sorts they are weak on. Plot, they have.
[edit] and yeah, I’ve seen all of them except a few of the recent ones at least twice regardless. It’s fine to like things that are not, you know, great.