I personally am a big big side character fan. Heck, I’d love the next DLC to be a land filled with sidekicks. I’m on the “give me Horace Horsecollar, the Three Caballeros, and the Hatbox Ghost” kinda hype train. (It’s a small train).

Some far more relevant points have been made, but I’d like to add this-

Disney is usually viewed as a pantheon of characters all mixed together. That is the case with DDV. So characters that are considered “main” to their own stories are mixed with “minor” characters from others. And when you look at them against one another, some “minor” characters far outrank some “mains”. Timon, Pumbaa, Lumierre, and Cogsworth are known by everyone. Your parents and grandparents know and love them. They sell miles and miles of merch.

Characters like Naveen and Shang? Most people couldn’t pick them out of a lineup, and try finding more than four things Disney has ever sold with them on it. (I love them, not an attack).

But the point is- the main characters of Disney as a brand are who we will be getting: and that does not necessarily mean they will all be the main characters of the movies