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Sam Raimi said that he was two-thirds or more of the way through the new plot for Multiverse of Madness (he and the screenwriter completely rewrote it during the COVID delay) before they even told him "WandaVision" existed.

Then there was some attempt to create a throughline or eliminate redunancies but they couldn't actually change the fact that they had Wanda go through the exact same story twice.

I think in general Multiverse of Madness was a movie that delivered absolutely nothing people wanted to see. No Doctor Strange/Scarlet Witch team-up, no one-on-one fight between those two characters, no character growth for either character, not really much multiverse.

But the only thing they actually tried to fix in reshoots was adding a couple of extra cameos as if that mattered. The Illuminati gag was funny because it acknowledge the total pointlessness of cameos, bringing them on only to die instantly -- the No Way Home guest stars are different because they're part of the franchise and integral to the story.