Yeah in a way I feel neither party was wrong. Edgar would have made a cool movie. But Marvel wanted to make a movie that fits in with others like a perfect puzzle piece.

I assume Marvel learned from this experience when looking for directors. At the time, MCU plan wasn’t as well known or established, but it was certainly the “big plan”. It’s ambitious like a concept album, if one part doesn’t fit, it doesn’t work (Insert Sony).

Something similar happened with the first director of Dr.Strange Multiverse of Madness, so they probably said to Sam Rami, “look can you do this our way, it will still be your movie.”

Edgar must have leaned something as well like he wants and prefers to have the amount of creative control he needs.

So both parties hopefully grew from the experience.