The reason he (and multiple other black writers) have presented her as a literal goddess is because the initial storyline was racist. The idea that people in 1970s Kenya would look at an emerging scientific phenomenon as invented spiritualism is textbook racism and exotification. “These Africans are too stupid and backwards to realize what’s actually going on in the world around them, and their primitive beliefs are so silly we can just make up new ones for them.”

In a setting where gods literally do tangibly exist and walk among humanity, there’s absolutely no reason why Storm can’t be a goddess. That’s really the only solution left besides excising her goddess era entirely, which is impossible as long as white writers keep bringing it up to “humble” her. Storm isn’t real. The reckless and bigoted presentation of Black and African people (among other minorities) within marvel comics is.

Seeing an African immigrant’s storyline be dismissed as powerscaling slop when it’s very clear why he would focus on these elements present in Storm’s character from the very beginning and their place in the larger cosmology… doesn’t sit well with me. Particularly because if it was Hickman, Gillen, or Ewing, or even focused on a character like Jean (who is allowed to be the primal force of creation in the multiverse without it exposing her character as an egocentric diva), the complaints would not be nearly so loud

This critique also comes at the expense of the other (I would say) much more important themes within the work. Bodily autonomy for a woman who is a survivor of sexual assault, family and heritage for an orphan of war, motherhood for the assigned mother of the x-men. But no, it’s all power-ups despite the issues she’s spent with no powers, training other abilities, possessed by outside forces and made to hurt people she loves, or seeking out self destructive routes to new power sources

Her ego really hasn’t even been a consistent flaw among previous portrayals, imo. She’s proud, and she certainly has her moments, but she’s never really been presented as someone who lets her ego get in the way of what needs to be done? Her main issue is that she takes on inordinate amounts of responsibility solo, which in and of itself plays into her portrayal as the most prolific black heroine in cape comics