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How would Sam Wilson change international law? That's what they'd need to do to address the root cause that created the Flag Smashers. For that particular challenge, he's not much more powerful than Andy Dufresne. The one thing he does have is a platform, which he uses, which is something you said never happens.
And you seem to be missing the part where I'm differentiating between the villain being sympathetic and their cause being sympathetic. The former (which you brought up) isn't relevant to your original point, where the underlying issue needs to be addressed. It doesn't matter how sympathetic Thanos is. The underlying issue is that he's a mass-murdering madman, so how is it a valid complaint to say that the heroes never address the underlying issues?
Suppose you took Thanos at face value and say the underlying cause is the concept of limited resources. What would that story look like, anyway? The Avengers alter reality to address the very concept of limited resources, creating a utopia across the entire universe? That sounds a little inaccessible.
I think what you're missing about the super hero genre is that their powers are generally limited in scope. They can't just reshape the world (except in that one What If..? episode called "What If Kahouri Reshaped the World?"). They struggle just like everyone else, and then sometimes through great effort they can save the day. That's what makes the stories good.
Anyway, I realized as I was writing the Simba thing that it actually was a good point, so I prepared an answer.
The actual reason is that in the Lion King universe, "the Circle of Life" isn't a complex series of interconnected, self-regulating systems like it is in real life. In-universe, it's the dogma of an environmentalist death cult that holds together a fragile ecosystem. Any animal that doesn't adhere to the death cult's strictures is exiled from their society, like the hyenas.
And like, the environmentalism is fine, but forcing the zebras, antelopes, and wildebeests to actively participate in a system where their role is to be eaten makes it a death cult.
The system is explored in the sequel series Lion Guard, where Simba's son goes around the Pride Lands using his super powerful Roar to maintain the status quo. Like if an alligator tries to eat too many of the wrong animal, the Lion Guard shows up and exiles them. Conversely, when a hyena agrees to adhere to the Circle of Life, she's welcome in the Pride Lands. So it's really a religious/cultural disagreement. Hyenas can't be allowed in unless they're willing to assimilate.
There's a disturbing conservative metaphor there, although the rest of it smells like a planned economy. Very authoritarian either way, but then again it's not called Lion President.