Inferno just made me really sad, man

I made a post here about a week ago arguing that Cyclops abandoning Madelyne Pryor was genuinely well-written and in character for him, even if it came about at the behest of editorial meddling. Since then, I've read through to the end of Inferno, and I'm really disappointed by where they took Cyclops.

I've really disliked Simonson's work on New Mutants (I feel like almost every character lost their distinctiveness, and most of their personal arcs came to an abrupt halt under her; plus, her Magneto is so much less interesting than Claremont's), but I enjoyed X-factor for the soap opera it's been. I found it pretty fascinating that a lot of the seeds of who Cyclops is today -- a man wrestling with his history as a child soldier who can't seem to get a grip on his own humanity -- are embedded in this run, and I thought she did a good job taking off from what Claremont had set up with Scott.

Inferno just... completely erases this. Sinister made Cyclops leave his wife, actually. Cyclops rejects the idea that Xavier's teachings were unhealthy for him, proclaiming that he was just looking for any reason to explain why he left his wife. Madelyne apparently even made him lose his duel with Storm, so all the significance of that fight just means nothing now. He was actually just perfect at being a family man all along and there was never any sort of interesting dichotomy in his character.

Claremont's run made me a Cyke lover and Simonson was really building on that for me, and this has totally taken the wind out of my sails. In combination with how she treats Maddie (another favourite of mine, loved her in the outback) in inferno and Magneto right afterwards in NM when he abandons the kids... I'm just really disappointed, man. Three of my favourite characters just got hit with the character assassination beam. At least Illlyana's sendoff was well done.