I think people pay a little too much attention to critic reception and audience reception and not enough to Feige reception. As far as predicting future impact, I mean. Obviously, you’d prefer to hit a triple, which is what the mcu usually does. But the implications moving forward for a movie with poor critic and audience that Feige personally thinks is great are probably quite different than poor critic and audience+Feige personally thinks is kind of weak.
Could all be PR BS of course, but based on the difference in reception among fans and GA I suspect that Feige genuinely thought, and still thinks, that this movie rocks (which is fair, ‘cause — it does). Actions speak louder than words so we’ll see how it all develops in a year or three, but I just don’t see much of a kneejerk change of plans being likely.