Interesting way to look at and appreciate what they did. Different for sure. How else would they have gotten some of the major, and in some cases, emotional interactions? One with Tony and you know who particularly comes to mind. Prof. Hulk in 2012 was also priceless. But other than the shining moments, a lot of it was unnecessary banter (re-explaining infinity stones, Rocket and Thor so much), I felt like if this wasn't their blowout movie, that they could have easily trimmed about 40 minutes to make it a tighter movie like Infinity War, but given it was the big finale, it was like they were stretching it or filling a sausage to make that 3 hour run time. I enjoyed it for what it is, the concluding arcs were great, but I truly from Marvel expected them to go big. I expected Return of the King, not necessarily Thanos not being crippled by the aftershock of what he did, but perhaps a different villain somewhat loosely tied to Thanos to bring the fight to the Avengers while they figured things out, I don't know. There is a whole lot else they could have done. This is just my personal opinion, it was a good satisfying film, just fell short of being bigger than IW which I find odd.