Walt Disney Pictures made Beauty and the Beast. Lucasfilm made TFA and RO. Walt Disney Studios distributed both. Maybe some day people will learn the difference (spoiler: they won’t).
You speak as though Disney’s overall strategy does not influence the direction of their subsidiary studios. Spoiler: It does.
He has a point that they do seem to be on a major member berry kick lately. Not a whole lot of original content coming out. Between the infinite Star Wars fan service films they have lined up, the Marvel movies that are just stale copies of one another, and recreating their own animated classics with live action and CGI, they are pretty clearly following a strict formula to appeal to as many people as possible and thereby make as much money as possible. Hard to fault a company for that, but it’s also ridiculous to deny that is in fact what they are doing. And it’s the opinion of myself and many others that, as successful as this lowest-common-denominator appeal to nostalgia is, and as fun as it can be for a while, it is ultimately detrimental creatively and artistically.
Fox took major risks that paid off with Deadpool and Logan, and that was a huge breath of fresh air for me. Those two are the first blockbusters I can recall seeing in quite a while that really stood out and drew me in. I literally fell asleep during Civil War. I’m just getting sick of the same old shit, movies with the same basic plots that run together so seamlessly that I can’t even remember which one is which. Disney really is becoming the McDonald’s of film. Everything is the same every time.