>>150880059
Pixar had the same formula problem Valve did with video games. Their movies were tech demos for the next breakthrough in computer animation. They had good scripts, but the scripts were also inspired by what they could animate or what they wanted to show off. Pixar stopped innovating after Wall-E and never progressed very far in human animation and that limited what scripts they could adapt.
Disney went through a similar arc in the 1930's-40's with Snow White, Pinocchio, and Fantasia but were able to migrate out of tech demo status into a new niche that sustained them for 30 years, driven by the hardship of the war forcing cut corners and produce Dumbo. Never had any kind of hardship or restraint with Pixar, just empty ambition without the means to reach it.