@OmegaDaGrodd - The way I look at it: shit usually doesn't work out for fans. Even when we get what we want, it's usually not what we really want.

But the MCU up-ended that calculus. It's has become this amazing industry phenomenon that is deeply engaging and does a hell of a lot of justice to the source material. But they still don't have access to a lot of their best characters. And even the ones they have are still arranged according to the priorities of Kevin Feige (bless him) who despite being a great manager of the studio does have his own personal quirks and biases (like apparently favoring the Eternals over the Inhumans for some reason).

The result is, we get a lot of good-to-great movies, and Loeb works on the margins, still managing to make some pretty damn watchable series even as they operate at arm's length from the films. It's a compromise, but probably the best possible outcome given the circumstance.

And as of now, Sony/Arad/Pascal are mining the Spider-Man rights for projects that can work on their own. And they may be emboldened by this reasonable success to reintegrating Spider-Man back into those properties once they're established (though I'm not convinced of it). So, even if that happens, the MCU gets Spider-Man for four movies. Probably six, given the time required to put their ducks in a row. That's more Spider-Man than people expected to ever see in the MCU anyway.

And now we're facing the imminent return of the X-Franchise and likely the Fantastic Four, with potential that most people haven't even begun to unpack. It's an embarrassment of riches. And I'm just waiting for some new shoe to drop that mars how astounding a coup this is (there are some business aspects that aren't great, but that's already baked in to me, something else is likely coming).

Marvel fans are spoiled. We've have been getting the generous side of the coin flips for ten years. (Just look at DC, where even their fans are mostly motivated by who to blame for the state they find themselves in.) There has to be some salty with the sweet, the universe demands it. Nobody wins all the time.

@Spock0Clock - Agree with almost everything, except "likely the Fantastic Four ...." To be sure, the FF absolutely will be in a Marvel Studios movie, the Walt Disney Company press release announcing the Fox acquisition said as much. If not in their own titled film, then the FF in an FF universe which, as you perfectly describe it, is an embarrassment of riches that none of has seen on the big screen done correctly -- Galactus, Silver Surfer, Inhumans, Annhilus, Franklin Richards, Thing v. Hulk, Dr. Doom, the Negative Zone and more. Speaking of the Inhumans. That was an arm-wrestling match Feige didn't win against, Ike Perlmutter, thereby relegating Inhumans to that awful TV show. Time heals all wounds, and I have zero doubt we will see the Inhumans (done correctly) in a few years, on film, as part of the rich FF universe.

I like Sony's/Arad's/Pascal's now-apparent approach to Spidey: build a foundation with the rogue's gallery of Spidey villains, and then bring Spidey back to Sony. I am good with this, now that Marvel Studios has educated Pascal on how the core of Spidey should be done (high school kid, kinda geeky). That said, and just like in the ASM canon, Spidey is really his own team, and works best on his own, when every bad guy and every personal problem seem to be conspiring against him. He's not an Avenger. I don't want to see Iron Man flying around in every Spidey film. I don't want to see Spidey in an Iron-Spider costume (even though visually it looks cool). I like it when Spidey makes his own mistakes, when he figures things out on his own. I like it when Spidey's costume is torn and he need to sow it back together. We're not going to see this at Marvel Studios.

@Kleytus - Not going to happen got Spiderman for a couple but its not a long term financial win for Sony or Disney to work together with all the remaining characters.

@sinthegreat - Spider-Man 2099 vs. Batman Beyond. The dream movie.