People want original ideas that are also good stories. But this is not Disney/Pixar's biggest problem. Elio is a decent script. Raya and the Last Dragon maybe need one more re-write to be really solid. I think Luca was really good. Soul was great.

The problem is that they keep spending $200+ mil on these fucking movies and guarantee that it's going to bomb unless it makes $600mil+. That's such a fucking gamble and they KEEP DOING IT. Stop with the constant test audiences. Stop with the re-writes. Stop straining the tech because you think every fucking rain drop needs to have realistic physics.

Flow was made in fucking Blender by a small team and made more of an impact than anything Disney and Pixar has done in years. You didn't need Elemental to be a fully constructed city with 200+ characters in the crowd simulations and hire a linguistic to invent a fire language. You should've pushed the tech to look more like watercolor and gone for a simplistic look while figuring out how to cut corners with background shots.