What went wrong with "Pocahontas"?, and why/how did it push away interest in WDAS?

There are legitimate issues with the movie in regards to representation of Native American culture seeing as it largely oversimplified and overmysticized it, in addition to taking the (admittedly tragic) life of an actual person as a base for their romance driven story that had nothing to do with accurately reflecting the historical context (worked quite well for Don Bluth's Anastasia though, however, Pocahontas is a vastly different case seeing as the primary conflict of the plot was specifically designed to revolve around an incredibly touchy subject such as oppression and invasion of Native Americans and their land rather than borrowing creative ideas from a certain isolated historical incident). Personally, I prefer Pocahontas as a movie to Lion King by miles (and yes, I'm well aware of it being an immensely unpopular opinion). As a protagonist, Pocahontas demonstrates a sufficient amount of traits and qualities that make her the closest to representing a flawed, struggling human being. Her often confused, indecisive attitude makes her significantly more relatable than certain princesses that are written specifically to respond to all the outer/external factors instantly and in a way that the audience would admire their comprehension skills (i.e Mulan, Belle, Rapunzel, Tiana). Factions of the audience were unwilling to embrace a new formula not particulary prominent or common for Disney and accept a strong female character who doesn't end up in a traditional marriage (with it being presented in a far more consistent and effortfully structured way than the entire Merida's arc). The movie's flaws ended up being too glaring to overlook and it's positive innovations and challenging nature of certain storylines didn't sit well with people who expected a more traditional approach towards the concept of Disney Princess movie.

On the most basic level: Pocahontas just has a very bland and very overdone story, and it just lacks a "stand-out" character...neither the villain nor Pocahontas herself are particularly creative, the only thing which really stands out is the animation, and that is a little bit problematic, too, because a lot of people have a hard time to appreciate it whenever Disney movies away from the "house style".
There were other aspects, though...for one, Disney just overused the formula. I like the DP movies, but when every single movie Disney does is that way, it becomes too much at one point. After Lion King, Disney should have done something entirely different, as some sort of breather, they should have experimented, instead they stuck with repeating the same stuff again and again. It was not Pocahontas alone, it was all the movies which came later on, too. By the time Disney started to think outside the box, it was too late. At the point, Pixar already had the reputation of making the unusual animated movies.