Meh, haven't been following comics since the mid-90s. Love the classics up to early 90s Marvel, but the shit they were trying to do slightly prior to Onslaught just made me throw in the towel. I will continue to love the "concepts" of these characters, everything after never interested me(no Onslaught, House of M, yadda yadda yadda, Brand New Day...). I think the problem is when continuities get stretched out to the point that people feel compelled to toss in everything and the kitchen sink, just for the damn sake of sakes. I think, over the years, I've come to agreeing with(I forget who said it, if it was someone on YouTube or the Poptards)someone who said there should be a "new continuity" for each decade/generation. By doing that, you can start anew with a new "take" on iconic characters without being tied down by the baggage of what people wrote decades prior. Each of these generations" will have an end before the advent of the next incarnation, but those ends aren't definitive(like, dimension/world destroying) and leave the world open(much like how our world is "open" in that regards). That's also a way to leave dead characters DEAD in one "generation" and bring them back in another(Jean Grey... Superman... well, just about everybody....).
A generational or decade(whatever is better) would force writers to focus on a plan and would weed out the need for stupid, unneeded arcs. A problem I've always had was the focus on huge, revolutionary story arcs that try to top the ones before them. So much of it tries to "leave you with your jaw dropped" but shifting(and shitting) the world up, it's just not interesting anymore. OMG, mutants don't have powers anymore! OMG, shift into ALTERNATE REALITY for the ZILLIONTH TIME... oh wait, things went back to normal... or DID THEY?!! OMG, classic and well known characters are killed... know they are back again, because... "insert stupid explanation HERE"!!!
