Pixar’s ability to create new IP is seriously damaged. Think people just want them doing Toy Story, Incredibles, Cars, and so forth.
Disney animated studio itself can always retreat back to making an animated princess movie which follows a time tested formula.
No problem is that’s what Disney wanted. Which is why they bought them. Pixar did not want to make a TS3 let alone a TS4, but that’s what Disney wanted so they bought them out and have utterly destroyed them.
The last “great” Pixar movie was UP! In 2009 and it was in production before Disney bought Pixar.
Since then they have made 16 movies, and at most 2-3 are even memorable.. the rest have been either complete crap to utterly unmemorable.
A company known for great imaginative world creation and character driven story telling is a soulless zombie.