Has the MCU grown too big to efficiently handle stand-alone plots?

Let me start off by saying this is an unpopular opinion. After finally watching NWH, I've come to the conclusion that, while being entertaining, is absolutely riddled with plot holes or extremely forced plot points. I don't really want to get into dissecting every little issue of this film. I'm more interested in wondering if the MCU has grown too big that now you have to start accounting for everyones whereabouts or lack of action in stand-alone stories (but aren't actually stand-alone). It's addressed more than once in films with Captain Marvel in Infinity War or even in this movie " Where is Fury?" "Oh he's off planet." With every new show and movie the MCU grows more crowded and more complex and that all the small plot holes start adding up to massive plot holes or forced dialog to excuse terrible written plot points. Is this just all leading up to an unavoidable shattering of the MCU into smaller hero-verse fragments?

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