Disney could possibly buy 20th century fox.

You can't be serious.

The MCU characters WERE B listers.    That's prior to 2008.   Now they are A listers where kids wear Iron Man, Thor, Cap, and Hulk costumes on Halloween.   And the box office doesn't lie no matter how you try to dismiss it as if it doesn't matter.   Logan was really good...but still didn't equal what Iron Man, Cap, and Thor movies currently make.   There is a 250 million ceiling on Fox X-men movie they can't break through.

The MCU is the top tier of CBMs at the moment.   That's just how it is.    MCU movies took the top 3 spots at the box office this year...and they did that with a GotG movie and a Thor movie.    Logan...came in 6th (last place).   The usual from Fox.   They've always lagged behind the other studios.   You claim Marvel died in 2011?   Since then they have released:

Avengers
Winter Soldier
GotG
Civil War
GotG 2
Spider-Man Homecoming
Thor 3

That's not even counting Dr Strange and Ant-Man...which other people love more than I do.   They've hit box office high points with Iron Man, Cap, and Thor in their THIRD movies.   This year was 3 home runs.

Man...they are getting better...not worse.  (no doubt because they got rid of Perlmutter)

I agree Feige would have loved to have X-men in 2008.  He also would have preferred to make a Spider-Man movie.  But that's changed now.   If they started right now in their current state, Iron Man, Thor, Cap, and even Dr Strange would come before X-men.   (That's right....Dr Strange outgrossed X-men by over 100 million last year)

It's true that Marvel has problems with their SJW comics, but who the heck reads comics?   Same with this "animations" thing.    If you watch any of these animated movies it's pretty painful and cheesy.   We let a lot of bad stuff pass when it's a cartoon.   You try that stuff in live action and people will laugh it out of the theater.   And again...how many people are really watching these "great cartoons"?

Says something about how badly DC is doing when you have to reach back for the Nolan trilogy and claim it's "still new".   TDK was the beloved movie and that's a decade old.   Remember when it was claimed that TDK was going to change the way CBMs were made?    Yeah...that didn't happen.   The genre has ignored TDK and gone with what Iron Man started instead.   Now even DC is trying to copy what Marvel did.   I hate to kick DC while they are down...but they are struggling and have been for several years.  (hey...at least JL was way better than Star Wars!)