Why don't individual MCU heroes have a recurring nemesis/rival?

I'm not talking about Thanos and Kang. They are overarching villains for a story arc that acts as the final boss for a group of heroes. I mean a recurring villain that is philosophically and diametrically opposed to a singular hero. Loki and Thor was the closest the MCU has had to a Joker/Batman style recurring rivalry and that kinda fizzled out as they redeemed Loki. I feel like the arch-nemesis trope is a major comic book trope that has been severely lacking in the MCU. Even FOX was able to make a great recurring nemesis with Magneto.

Green Goblin in No Way Home was the first time in a long time I felt like there was a real threatening villain that represented the exact opposite of the hero, and Tom Holland Spider-Man technically never met him. Yet despite that, it felt like they immediately they had this great hero/villain chemistry. I wish somehow that Green Goblin stayed in the MCU because they have such a great dramatic dynamic that needs to be brought back to the superhero genre.

Which hero and villain combo do you think MCU could do this with?

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