For those who don't know, power creep is a situation where you introduce a new element to your story/movie/game etc. That makes the previous conflict/villain/significant event in your story seem minor and irrelevant by comparison.

A lot of stories run into this issue when they raise the stakes too high and they don't know where else to go, so they just invent something out of nowhere that makes the previous high point of the story seem minor by comparison, and when it's done poorly it makes the entire story up to this point feel meaningless.

This show, specifically its first episode, single-handedly makes all of the previously established MCU lore pointless, and I really don't see the point in watching it or any upcoming MCU shows or films anymore since nothing in that universe seems to have any real substance to it.

Yes, I know that the TVA is from the comics,, but not everything from the comics needs to be turned into live-action.

If your story gets to a point where you struggle to figure out how to raise the stakes any further because you've already set them so high, just end the story there. It has reached its full potential and any attempts at exhausting it further would lead it to collapse into a complete mess.

But I guess there's just too much money to be made from this franchise, right? Can't just leave it as is or scale the story back some. No! You HAVE to milk it for all its worth until there's nothing left, am I right, Disney?