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I do wonder what the internet would have done when they replaced Sean Connery as Bond.
There were some big differences between Bond and Sparrow. Bond was still popular and YOLT was a big hit just two years earlier. There was reason to continue. POTC, on the other hand, has been decaying for awhile.
Another big difference is that the POTC films are far more expensive to made. OHMSS was a disappointment, but wasn't a franchise destroying bomb. A POTC movie that grossed what OHMSS (even adjusted for inflation) would be a massive money loser.
Finally, EON basically exists solely to make James Bond movies. They don't do anything else. Disney does.