No Way Home pokes fun at a common Phase 2 criticism?

I remember back when Phase 2 of the MCU was coming and one of the most common criticisms of it was, "Why didn't the characters just call on the other Avengers for help?" or something like that. Of course the actual answer is because it was their own movie and bringing in other characters would take focus away from the main characters (also in-universe reasons like the problems in Iron Man 3, Dark World and Winter Soldier happening both in secret and/or on short notice).

Antman also pokes fun at this when Scott's first instinct is to get the Avengers involved to which Hank Pym says not to, but i think No Way Home also kind of pokes fun at this criticism but in a different way.

In No Way Home, when Peter finds out him and his friends aren't getting into the college they wanted because of Peter's identity getting out, Peter's first thought is to get Dr. Strange in on it to help him, to which he agrees and leads to the rest of the movie. After Stephen does the spell he berates Peter for not taking the simpler path of just talking to the college head when he finds out that Peter didn't do that.

Thus might be a stretch, but I think this scene might be a jab at audiences during Phase 2 when they ask "Why didn't they get the other Avengers involved?", because in this movie Peter doing that not only didn't help the problem, it also made the problem worse.

Again, this might be a stretch or a coincidence, but I thought it was an interesting thought. What do you guys think?

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