I think the problem is not that putting """woke""" messages in movies ruins them, I don't think that's remotely the case, nor that people who care about the stuff people term """woke""" inherently can't write good stories, I think it's that when the people making movies don't have any good ideas, any vision, anything they feel confident the movie can stand on its own merit with, they slap such messages on the front and hope that'll make it above criticism and/or meaningful in some way.

Movies like Wall-E, Finding Nemo have strong ESG themes and were acclaimed successes.

You seem more obsessed with finding any excuse to be anti-ESG rather than having a specific issue with recent Pixar films which have issues unrelated to specific themes.

Maybe I don’t know what you mean by ESG messaging I’d assume it’s related to some environmental stuff and/or diversity. Strong stories just work - Wall-E was excellent with a back drop of its environmental messaging and non Disney into the spider verse / across the spiderverse are excellent movies with diversity and a great stories.

There are plenty of series and movies that use more-contemporary cultural values to mask bad-storytelling. I really don't see how Pixar is at fault for this, however. How is this relevant to the failures of The Good Dinosaur and Elemental, for example?