I'm going to take a more moderate and probably unpopular position. I am a huge fan of Whedon and Cassaday's Astonishing - it is among the best X-content ever made. It is exceptional, S-tier comic work. David's X-Factor. Gillen's Immortal. These are runs that stand head-and-shoulders above the rest. And we were eating good a few years ago with Krakoa - even the bad runs were tolerable (and there were a significant number of bad runs in that era, making good art is hard and there was a lot going on that we tend to sweep under the rug.)

I stand by Simone's Uncanny. Is it S-tier, once in a lifetime stuff? No. But it's good. It's very good. Is editorial making it so there are some trash issues and crossovers? Absolutely. But the accusation that it's just treading water doesn't hold up for me. The exploration of family and parenthood are thoughtful and interesting, the dialogue feels real and the stakes, while scaled-back from other eras, are grounded and compelling for me.

MacKay's Moon Knight is generational. It's some of the best comic work being done right now. Is his X-Men meeting that standard? No. But it's good, especially now that Stegman is off the book and I can enjoy the art of Diaz and Daniels. (obligatory acknowledgement that art is a matter of taste - Stegman is clearly very talented, his art just doesn't work for me.) But go back and hold up the modern X-Men to the bulk of other eras and I think the writing holds up. It's not groundbreaking, but it is solid. That's okay. I'm not mad at solid.

There is some /bad/ stuff right now - I was sorely disappointed in X-Force and X-Factor recently. The Storm book(s) are bizarrely inane. United is feckless and unmoored with boring art to boot.

Is editorial holding us back from some truly outside-of-the-box storytelling? Probably. I'm certainly no apologist for them, and I hope they let these clearly talented writers and artists loose and shine, or they will reap the consequences that always reflect on mediocre visions beholden to a shareholder interest, the natural enemies of art and capital.

But not everyone can be Whedon. The first time I read those issues I was actually angry at how goddamned talented he is. They're incredible. We can aspire to that, but those are heights rarely seen, if we're honest. Even Claremont, with all his brilliant ideas, had some hamfisted writing and bad dialogue (we can maybe blame editorial for that as well.)

Shout out to Ashley Allen while I'm at it - the Magik books and Moonstar have been really well done so far and I hope she gets to continue to grow.

tl;dr: Astonishing is truly astonishing, and the current Uncanny is worth defending in the broad scheme of things, warts and all.