Moreover, analysts suggest that not enough time passed between installments. “Fire and Ash” debuted just three years after “The Way of Water,” a short gap compared with the previous decade-plus wait.

Hahahaha analysts are really grasping for straws, the fact that 2 did that well after such a long wait was more a fluke than anything. The other points about 3’s story being unimportant and the tech being uninteresting explain more

By the 5th movie I’d be surprised if it was more than a vanity project