What I’ve read implies it happens immediately after Avengers: Endgame.Not that this is the end-all be-all or anything but the below is in line with what I’ve read previously (although this could have changed):

Too many people are involved, and too much of the industry’s machinery needs to be able to know what’s planned so that they can gear up at the appropriate time for things.

Sure, maybe it would have preserved our potential belief in the very slim possibility that, whoa, maybe they really DID kill off all those characters for good! Except we’re not naive children and we know better.

Did anybody walking out of the theater after IW really believe the snap wasn’t going to be reversed?

And that’s fine, as long as you acknowledge there are a ton of fans (who are probably fairly young) that aren’t plugged into the MCU’s release slate news.

As far as whether or not it kills any stakes, I think I disagree. [snap] What sells it is the emotion of the characters left behind; we’re devastated because Tony’sdevastated, scared because Peter’s scared. Marvel used the empathy we’ve grown for these characters over twenty movies to their advantage there more than…

The problem I have is that, assuming Black Panther and the others are alive and well, wouldn’t the Avengers be called in any time there is an issue like this?

(I seriously doubt they plan a mashup of the MCU and The Leftovers).

Movie production takes years too! Writing, script doctoring, pre-production, production, filming, editing, re-shoots, re-editing.

So you are just going to ignore how waaaaaay back in June 2017, Amy Pascal revealed that Far From Home would start just immediately after the finale of Avengers: Endgame? Where she literally said

You act as if it isn’t somewhat of a spoiler for fans to read the next GRRM books after they already know what will happen in the show, or that people aren’t incredibly annoyed it took him years longer than promised and that the books will already likely have their major arcs and outcomes revealed.

But, that’s both diff…

They’ve confirmed this literally COUNTLESS times.

Did you honestly expect characters like Black Panter and Spider-Man to stay dead?

Honestly? I would have expected Marvel and Sony to come up with a timeframe where Avengers: Endgame either came out before Sony effectively revealed the surprise, no matter how obvious, or I would have presented it in a way where it was known it this movie happens chronologically prior to the events in the last…

*sigh*

I mean, Marvel is in a damned-if-you-do-damned-if-you-don’t situation anyway. [snip] I kinda respect them for picking the option that doesn’t risk insulting theiraudience’s intelligence. And if they’re ever questioned about it, Kevin Feige can always trot out the ol’ platitude of “it’s not what happens that matters,…

Shrug. Not sure what else they could have done

(I’m not reading too much into Nick being there, as that could simply be Mysterio in disguise.)

Well, yes, especially given your very next sentence.

Sony don’t owe Disney anything. They’ve held off pretty long as it is.