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Depends if Avengers 5 is now going to be a film like Infinity War and Endgame or if it's more like Avengers 1 or Age of Ultron now and Marvel goes back to basics. In the Avengers, Loki only appeared in 1 film prior to that. In AOU, Ultron only appeared for the first time in that film. If Avengers 5 is a relatively smaller film in that vein, then it might not need a big bad as such. And if a big bad is operating behind the scenes like Thanos was in Avengers in the end credits then it won't feel as rushed as he can appear later.
Maybe at this stage with Marvel not doing as well, they need to aim for something successful like the Avengers instead of Infinity War and Endgame.
They needed a movie like Avengers or AoU in Phase 4. Not Phase 6. Come Phase 6, they need to be moving toward this Saga coming to an end and building toward something new. Doing a back to basics movie at this point just makes this Saga keep going longer. Does anyone want that? Especially Marvel at this point? So I don't see them doing that