Well take this with a grain of salt, but if you are to believe the latest (and like I said after the Wakanda Forever debacle, I'm reluctant to believe any rumor anymore) but Den of Nerds is saying that Feige has no plans for anything Doom related at all until AFTER Secret Wars. They went on to say expect nothing about him at all in Phase 5...probably not even in the F4 movie.
Sad to say this is the type of rumor I see being true...not sure what is going on in the mind of Feige or the heads of Marvel, but not evening having Doom at all in ANY project, not even mentioning Latveria, just proves what I am saying, they don't see him as a priority. The Mutants take over I am sure in Phase 7 and then they will dominate Phases 7 through 9. I could see Magneto/Apocalypse being the Big Bads for those phases.
I feel like they have put Doom in a corner and there just doesn't seem to be any room for him now. Stripping him of his biggest accomplishment and giving it to Kang is something that is going to make me a very bitter person when I go and see Antman 3 and any Kang related project. Kang is a great character but he is Doom-lite. They as characters have great chemistry but despite his time travel abilities and such, Kang can't compare to Doom.. I feel like Doom getting the shaft or at least made to be irrelevant and could tainting my MCU experience going forward.
For years, I kept saying that "if Marvel/Disney gets ahold of the F4 rights, they will make the F4 and Doom right." I never dreamed the type of delay that has happened nor would I forsee that Doom wouldn't get top priority. To me even if they had other characters or stories planned, I would be making adjustments in a heartbeat once I was given the A-OK to do so. Doom would have shown up in several properties by now. Latveria would be on the world stage. Leading to Doom's role on Earth, Kang in the cosmos....Change things up and not focus on just once villain ala Thanos...then Doom destroys Kang in the mid-credit and sets up Battleworld in SW and Doom's lasting victory into Phase 7 . You don't just rinse and repeat the Thanos formula...win in IW (KD), then defeated in EG (SW).
I am just beyond frustrated. The only new character that I was so happy to see they got right that was on my mega anticipated page was Man-Thing. As it stands now, the rumors for the F4 casting have me worried. I can only hope they pull victory out of the jaws of defeat.