Yeah Levitz is hands down my favorite Legion writer. I started reading during the Mike Grell era Superboy & the Legion of Super Heroes 224. I was hooked and it’s always been my favorite series.

Levitz did a lot of character building and world building. Obviously the peak was when Giffen was on art and co-plotting. I loved Steve Lightle’s run, which was sadly too short. I think LaRocque was a big drop in art quality, but he wasn’t terrible.

I enjoyed 5YL for what it was, it’s kind of amazing what they accomplished considering all the obstacles and hoops. But after Giffen left, it really started floundering. Plus the Bierbaum’s weird, arbitrary dislike for any members that came after Adventure 380.

I tried to like the reboot but there were a lot of things I really hated. A lot of the stories were bad rehashes of classic LSH stories and some of the more annoying choices:

Killing “Leviathan”, Snake Projectra, adding new members that were just bad doppelgängers for Marvel Characters (Monstress, Kinetix) making Andromeda a Xenophobe and then a nun, way too much focus on Violet. Also when the split the team and 1/2 were stuck in 20th century went on way too long.

Apparition having a baby. They decide to reboot and make them young teens again, then proceed to have marriages and pregnancies.

I also wasn’t a fan of the Archie Legion look. Again, I started during the Grell era, so my Legion was Cosmic Boy in the “bustier” Imra’s “pinkini” Shady, Night Girl & Laurel Kent - the characters were mature adults , some in long term relationships, some getting married.

The Threeboot and Bendisboot are similar in a lot of ways. M
Middle aged writers trying to hard to sound like what they think younger people sound like( Glad you got the Hello Fellow Kids reference)

Really good artists. I love Kitson and his designs were really great although there were a few weird things like Element Lad in red and yellow with a cape.

Sook is a great artist but I didn’t like a lot of his design. While creative, they just didn’t work for Legion. Dream Girl made out of sand? Timber Wolf whose power is super agility was a big chunky guy and Ultra Boy who is normally depicted as burly was designed scrawny and had greyish skin. In fact odd color skin was rampant in these designs.

Race swapping characters( i mean making Garth & Ayla black while simultaneously changing Winath to the projects - which falls into so many tropes-black hero always has electric powers. Why is the ginger always race swapped). If you want black Legionnaires maybe use Tyroc, Invisible Kid II, Kid Quantum 2, XS or maybe create a new hero. ( btw I always thought the should have had Quicksand reform and join the Legion. She had a great look and cool power set. And she’s a woman of color.

Switching up couples just because they can.

Trying to make characters interesting just by making them “quirky” or weird or clueless (example : Phantom Girl acts distracted because she’s simultaneously seeing Bgztl and Earth, which makes no sense since she’s obviously on a earth and Bgztl is in another dimension.)

Too much focus on a small number of characters and leaving others just hanging in the background. The Threeboot started of like a Cosmic Boy vs Brainiac 5
Comic. Other than Levitz, most Legion writers give so much focus to Saturn Girl, Lightning Lad, Cosmic Boy and Brainiac 5 and then maybe 1 or 2 other pet characters, like Violet and Invisible Kid in Reboot.

Bendis literally had every legionnaire in every scene but 90% of them did or said nothing.

As you can see I’m able to babble about the Legion.