The Marvel Cinematic Universe started out so humbly. First there was the real world, then there was an Iron Man.
But after more than thirty films and TV shows, that universe no longer feels like our own. It’s hard to tell a story that feels relevant to the audience’s actual experience when even the background extras in these movies are playing people who died for five years and suddenly came back to life.
There’s no status quo to uproot anymore, no baseline normal to turn upside down. Heck, even something as simple as “telling a story set on our own planet” is a little alienating, since the MCU version of Earth is just a cracked egg with the corpse of a giant space god hanging out of it.