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This is a different question. However, if you want to point to the one movie most responsible for the MCU's decline, I think it has to be Love and Thunder. Thor is the only OG Avenger left. If any movie was going to set a direction for the MCU post endgame, this should have been it. Instead it wasn't consequential at all. It was barely a movie.
We'll ignore that every MCU movie released after until The Marvels still had a $100 million+ opening, with Ant-Man even opening higher than its two predecessors. Also that Love & Thunder had a B+ Cinemascore vs. the B Cinemascores of Quantumania and The Marvels.
I do have to wonder though if metrics like that are skewed by Taika Waititi fans or something. I think some big site (don't remember which) held a bracket game to decide the best filmmaker who started within the past 25 years last year, and Waititi beat out Brad Bird in the first round. The same Brad Bird who directed Iron Giant, both Incredibles, Ratatouille, and Mission: Impossible 4.
I also personally think Jojo Rabbit is way better than Waititi's Thor movies.