The brain trust was a thing before and after Brave, Coco was the last film that Lasseter worked on but there’s still a lot of the original team at Pixar
I think the point was more that Brave was the first move the original brain trust hadn’t been involved in developing the concept for. There’s still continuity, so it still had that Pixar “feel” (though even that is kind of fading as we get more removed from that group) but the lightning in a bottle spark of their early stuff wasn’t there any more.
The brain trust was a thing before and after Brave, Coco was the last film that Lasseter worked on but there’s still a lot of the original team at Pixar
I think the point was more that Brave was the first move the original brain trust hadn’t been involved in developing the concept for. There’s still continuity, so it still had that Pixar “feel” (though even that is kind of fading as we get more removed from that group) but the lightning in a bottle spark of their early stuff wasn’t there any more.