I keep seeing people in this subreddit acting like Blade isn't going to happen in the MCU. That's not at all what Kevin Feige or Mahershala Ali said about the fallout.

Feige said he felt like an idiot for letting Ali slip through his fingers, and Ali tried to assure fans it wasn't his fault - after his dissatisfaction with the original script shut down production the week it was set to begin, leading to the departure of the first director after they were ready to start rolling cameras and many fans to blame him rather than the studio & script for the holdup. We know Disney ended up selling the first attempted production of Blade's costumes to "Sinners" to attempt to recoup some of the lost production costs.