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Most pre-Endgame movies didnt have much of an impact consequences either. At the worst, you have trash like The Dark World, a movie whose entire purpose is to put an infinity stone into the plot. Most just added another character to the roster of heroes.

Kang worked better in Loki than Ant-Man 3. Quantumanias Kang could have been a weaker Kang in general, but he lacked threat potential on-screen. The movie needed to do a better job at hyping up the council of Kangs if Kang was going to be a major recurring or ongoing threat.

Also, the MCU shat the bed on the multiverse. Loki was the only entry that made interesting use of the multiverse. Everything else had the multiverse just be an excuse to throw nostalgia fandom connecting to Fox or Sony movies or Wandas crappy writing in Doctor Strange 2 (which was better than the first Doctor. strange at least).
Meanwhile, the same year that Multiverse of Madness was released Everything Everywhere All at Once came out and did laps around the MCU in terms of reception and respect.

The end of the Eternals was a good set-up for future events. I actually put Eternals in the upper half of the MCU. Even if the characters werent worth revisiting, the ideas in the film were solid.
The Ten Rings were a decent hook for the multiverse or whatever they are.