Is it just me or were Disney going through somewhat of an angsty teenage phase in the 2000s? All the symptoms were there:
Constant self-depricating jokes (the Teachers' Pet movie was a deconstruction of Pinocchio; Lilo and Stitch was advertised by making fun of the Disney Renaissance)
A few plotlines involving disconnected, inexperienced or outright terrible parents (Lilo and Stitch is about a broken home being repaired by welcoming an alien pet; Buck Cluck is a certified A-double-dollar hole in Chicken Little; Kuzco's adoptive mother is the villain in Emperor's New Groove)
Copying the more successful kids/studios in class/Hollywood (The Wild = Madagascar; Chicken Little = Shrek)
There's a reason why people think "Disney Channel" and not "Disney animation" when they hear "2000s Disney", and it's more than nostalgia - well, some of the stuff they put out was good, like the aforementioned Lilo & Stitch and New Groove, but that's a small amount.