Disney's Divinity wrote:Of course he won't. We already saw from TP&TF that he did not take responsibility for his own interference with M&C by forcing them to follow the buddy roadtrip structure and use Newman. He blamed hand-drawn animation, fairy tales, and Randy Newman.
They would've followed the buddy roadtrip structure even if Tangled and Frozen had flopped because, going by everything he's done at Pixar and Disney, it's the only thing Lasseter is capable of doing at all.
(Uh, late reply irrelevant to the thread at whole.)
To be fair, this specific instance was due to the structure of the source material (The Frog Princess).