Yep! And that’s what makes Steve, Nat, and Scott’s decision to just go get help from somebody else with the Time Heist that much more fucked up. Not only did they dismiss Tony’s warnings, yet again, but they also didn’t seem to even care that they would be risking his daughter’s existence after he just told them that he couldn’t help them because he wasn’t going to risk potentially trading Morgan’s life (and that of millions of other children born post-Snap) for just the chance to undo the Snap.
Tony was also, very clearly, an expert on Quantum Physics. He warned them of the risks and dangers involved in just attempting to travel back in time. And what did they do when he rejected to help? They went straight to somebody else who was not an expert on Quantum Physics. They were 100% willing and committed to attempting the Time Heist on their own, without Tony and instead with a guy who told them, to their faces, that the Quantum Realm “is not in [his] area of expertise”. They had no fucking clue what they were doing and they still went ahead and tried it anyway! Bruce literally turned Scott into a fucking baby, a preteen, and an old man. Just imagine what else would have happened if Tony hadn’t shown up and prevented them from fucking shit up even more… Would they have accidentally killed Scott? Doomed another timeline? Doomed their own? Who the fuck knows.
It honestly just further proves how fucking short-sighted the rest of the team actually are–especially Steve. He doesn’t look at the bigger picture, think of the long-term effects, or consider the consequences of his actions. In Age of Ultron, he opposed Tony’s proactiveness and desire for preventative measures against intergalactic threats with the naive sentiment of the “power of friendship”–and even said that he was okay with losing! (Until they actually lost, that is. Then he changed his tune…) In Civil War, he refused to compromise with 117 countries calling for accountability, and ended up not only dividing the Avengers (making them unprepared for Thanos) but also making half of them wanted fugitives for breaking several international laws. In Infinity War, he refused to allow Vision to sacrifice himself in order to destroy the Mind Stone because “we don’t trade lives” but just ended up trading countless Wakandan lives instead for a fucking robot–a robot who understood that one (synthetic) life cannot outweigh the trillions of lives across the entire universe–and yet it just lead to Thanos’ victory anyway. And finally, in Endgame, he only thought about undoing the Snap, and didn’t once stop to truly consider the high-stake risks involved, such as erasing all the children born post-Snap or erasing the entire universe, as the comment above me already stated. He just doesn’t really think past the next five minutes of anything. It’s frustrating. He’s meant to be this “expert strategist and tactician” but MCU!Steve is just like Error 404: Footage Not Found.
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