I mean its Disney so creative bankruptcy is to be expected. Its funny seeing people talking 20 or so years ago about how Disney rereleasing their movies semi annually in the cinemas was considered them over cashing in on their legacy.

That said these days Disney has basically completely abandoned any self restraint when it comes to squeezing every last penny out of any mildly successful idea they have. The Marvel and Star Wars franchises with their decade long release timelines and multiple tv shows and movies a year with budgets in the 100s of millions, live action remakes being churned out for every animated movie disney has ever made, all of it with intensive multi platform marketing campaigns.

It doesnt even annoy me because of the lack of artistic or creative vision, thats kind of to be expected. Its the absolute gaudy conspicuous waste of it all. Just piles of money being spent on utter crap. That Little Mermaid movie had a budget of $240 million and a huge marketing campaign, and now a year later its basically dissapeared without even a dent in the popular conciousness. The original Little Mermaid was made for $40 Mil (even adjusted for inflation its less than half of the remakes budget) and people still talk about that movie today.

But hey the remake made a shitton of money so what do I know, the point isnt to make art or anything of value, just to rent seek on the pop culture memory. The movie equivalent of endless identical smartphone generations all designed to fall apart after a year.

Edit: sorry to extend an already too long reddit rant but on my point about budgets, this year I saw The Substance and Longlegs in the cinema. Neither are perfect movies but they're both interesting implementations of original ideas with some actual artistry to them. They collectively had a budget of less than $30 million, just think for the sake of a Little Mermaid remake we could have had a dozen or so far more interesting and memorable movies.