"Fix it." That's all that was available to them. Tony wouldn't abide a world where they failed everyone so thoroughly. He needed to live, apparently, the time stone needed to be in play. He was doing research here that would be relevant- they had Bruce. They probably had Shuri. Between the three of them they'd manage something. They'd have to. Leaving it as it was? Just letting those gone stay gone, let Thanos sit with this until five or six decades pass and he had to snap again?

Not happening.

"The Accords or something like them were inevitable. I've been working on them for the past two years, getting them into something manageable. Or- trying. It'd be easier if Rogers and the rest stuck it out but-" He shrugged. Fixing shit on his own after everyone else moved on? Kind of his deal. They were almost about where he'd meant for them to be at the start but negotiations kind of fell apart along with the rest of the avengers ages ago. "The public have a right to be concerned, we need protection from lawsuits and guidelines like any specialty group that functions the way we did, the way the next round will. My pockets aren't endless, I can't keep covering everything."

Eventually? He'd go bankrupt.