While it was a huge disappointment to hear about this, the fact is Feige is steering the MCU towards a more Galactic/alternate dimension arena. Spiderman doesn't seem like a good fit for the ones still set on Earth (Black Widow? Dr. Strange 2? Black Panther 2? Nah, man). Despite a noted lack of charisma, I think Captain Marvel is supposed to replace Iron Man/Cap as the central hero of the Avengers.

I don't think Sony is holding out. They scored a billion dollar hit and now they think they can take it from here.

And I'm not hopeful for where Sony will take Spiderman from here. I'm already smh at the inevitable Venom crossover. But Sony needs Disney more than Disney needs Sony, and its going to show as once again they fail at building their own shared universe.