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I remember when every Pixar film was a huge deal, whenever there was a new one we had to see it in theaters. And then brave came out, and we saw it, and it was incredibly underwhelming. Since then I just haven't really cared for any Pixar release.
Fortunately it feels like other studios are making up for it, especially since into the spiderverse. The new one was absolutely incredible, and I can't imagine elemental coming anywhere close to that.
I wish I could find the specific article about it, but it's like a decade+ old and google isn't cooperating. If I recall right though, Brave was the first film idea that Pixar put out which had entirely been conceived without the original core team at Pixar's input. All the other stuff, even if it hadn't come out when those people left yet, had been brainstormed by that group and their lack of involvement is why from that point on it all feels so much lesser than Pixar's golden age.
The brain trust was a thing before and after Brave, Coco was the last film that Lasseter worked on but there's still a lot of the original team at Pixar
I think the point was more that Brave was the first move the original brain trust hadn't been involved in developing the concept for. There's still continuity, so it still had that Pixar "feel" (though even that is kind of fading as we get more removed from that group) but the lightning in a bottle spark of their early stuff wasn't there any more.