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I'm not even sure they believe their own words.
That puts us in "The Amazing Spider-Man" territory. While technically both films were a financial success, they were not well received critically. Sony had a whole plan for a Spider-Man universe following these two films.
If it had been such incredible business, they would have continued with their Spider-Man universe. However even at the time they knew they weren't up to the task, they knew they didn't have the quality to create a profitable Spider-Man universe. So they made a deal with Disney/Marvel.
THEN, for whatever reason, AFTER giving up Spider-Man, they still tried to create that Spider-Man universe, but without Spider-Man.
Unfortunately for all of us... Venom sorta worked. Sony could have their cake and eat it too. Except, as we saw, not really. But we could justify Venom 2, Venom 3, Morbius, Madam Web and Kraven, all by saying, "But Venom worked, it could happen again."