Nah... I don't really think either of those are necessary. You get all you need of the Tesseract from Avengers 1, and who cares about the Aether. It's just another stone Thanos has to collect. Honestly, you'd ideally like to be able to cut it down to 4 movies or less so someone can get there in a day, but I don't see how that's feasible without leaving the viewer in a "who the hell is that, where the heck are they, why are they doing that and what are that guy's powers" situation.
I'm surprised some fan hasn't done some sort of mega edit, though, that cuts together a bunch of scenes from a bunch of movies a la "Star Wars prequels re-edit" to provide all the background in, say, 6 hours. That'll probably happen at some point.
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