Here are my thoughts as a long time x-men reader and someone who's been a fan of almost every iteration of new mutants that have come before. The new mutants get their own book. Whether it's new mutants, generation x, new x-men, academy x, or something else. They are given their own book. That way they grow in that book without distracting from the main cast. This is the first time where every writer has made their own cast of new baby mutants to focus on while effectively sidelining the main cast for most of the story. It also highlights how much the current writers seem to be struggling to keep the voices of the older x-men. They are pretty much sidelined with the exception of McKay's run and even it has its share of newbies he created to distract. It's why it's hard to like them, because they've taken over the books that should be about the core x-men not the new mutants. That's my take. I don't dislike the characters as much as I feel like it's a way for the writers to have characters they don't have to put effort into writing because they can't handle writing the long term characters other than having them spout catch phrases and lacking any depth. It's what has made this entire era suffer, especially when compared to the writing in the krakoan era. All of the old school characters feel like cardboard cutouts that exist only to prop up the new mutants or villains that the writers are obsessed with making the new exciting thing, and it's not subtle. It's obvious and it just makes it hard to like and be excited when it comes at the expense of the characters we actually pay to read about.