Before digging in to this movie specifically, we should note that this movie doesn’t really have many ties to Avengers: Infinity War.
This journey to Avengers: Infinity War series has looked back at nearly every movie so far in the MCU, with just Thor: Ragnarok and Black Panther left to go.
Instead of giving the beloved webslinger his own movie first, they introduced the new version of the character in Captain America: Civil War.
It was also forced to exist in an already well-established MCU and also had Sony as a creative partner.