No one is disputing Coogler or Chad’s greatness. People are just taking issue with aspects of T’Challa’s characterization in light of the fact Marvel is A. Prematurely ending the character’s live action journey potentially for decades (no one knows if a reboot is ever even happening anymore) and B. How it is now infecting other BP appearances.
Trying to construe it as an attack against their character is simply gross, especially with Chadwick. For all the criticisms folks in this thread have, not one time have people said Chadwick did anything wrong, didn’t love the character, or didn’t knock it out the park. You’re trying to personalize film criticism because you don’t like the criticism. It’s weird and overly defensive, bordering on disrespectful.
There’s nothing sus about saying it was a profoundly wrong to not depict T’Challa’s traditional intelligence or forward-looking ideals. And it definitely isn’t wrong to say that now that Marvel has decided not to recast, T’Challa across every medium is trapped with what is essentially an incomplete portrayal. No one has said T’Challa was stupid, but when Falcon’s got more onscreen tech feats than a guy who’s a peer to Reed Richards in the comics, yea you’re gonna hear some criticism. Perfectly valid and literally no other fanbase gets criticism for pointing out inaccuracies and how it’s harming portrayals in other mediums, let alone being accused of spitting on celebrated black creators.
And Shuri being the smartest isn’t even the problem, it was the complete sidelining of one of T’Challa’s greatest traits. She can be the smartest person in the MCU if that’s the goal, the desire of most fans has been for T’Challa to be shown explicitly and unashamedly as a genius. How he pairs up against Shuri has never mattered to me as long as T’Challa isn’t shown 100% relying on others for all his tech feats.