If Connery was in On her majesty’s secret service it would have been the perfect ending for the whole James Bond franchise… 55 years ago. Every movie and actor playing the role since just seems like an attempt at reinventing something that was fine to begin with; Moore era went more comedic, Dalton era went more gritty action, Brosnan era went kind of in between those and Craig era just was “Borne, Jason Borne”.
I enjoyed Casino Royal as a change of pace but it’s really the only Craig Bond movie that I think is memorable, and they went from the theme of Bond being this new scrappy agent to being an aging dinosaur in a matter of one movie. Give me Roger Moore dressed as a clown doing wheelies in a TukTuk any day as far as rewatchability over the dark brooding seriousness of the current era.