I read the piece again and became even more disappointed.

2026: "Docter said Pixar found some parents didn’t want entertainment to force them to have a conversation they weren’t ready for with their children. “We’re making a movie, not hundreds of millions of dollars of therapy,” he said."

2009:

@tvaziri Pixar was always at its best doing unconventional, original storytelling that children could understand - WALL-E, Up, Inside Out, etc. If they intend to dumb things down again, we end up with dross like Cars 2 🤮
@benjamincox @tvaziri Two of the movies you cite (Up & Inside Out) were made by Docter 🤷🏽‍♂️ For better or for worse, being 'just' a director is different than being the leader of the studio. Different metrics to be graded on.