I do believe in superhero fatigue and I'm a long time comic geek. But before we had superhero fatigue we had reboot fatigue, the superhero movies gave us a break, (other than the endless rebooting of batman). Now they've burned us out on superhero's, amped up the reboots and sequels and attempted to do it with more CGI, more special effects, and at one point I would have said shoddy writing but I recently read that the current thing on movies is to make the plot fluid till the movie is finished so that if the director, the marketing team or anyother person in the chain decides they need a cool tie in to a book, a theme park or an opportunity to tie it to a toy they can just change up the ending or any other main plot point without reshooting scenes. So yeah Shoddy writing and generic story lines that are easy to change on a whim.
I do think a discussion could be had over whether it's superhero fatigue or "the universe is going to die" fatigue. I think there is still a market for superhero's saving thier friends, cities, local hangouts etc, that are fun and not a crawl through glass to get to Thannos or the next BBEGI.
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