I don't think the problem with the cartoon Light was the reveal (unless you found the roster boring) so much as the group wearing out it's welcome by...
That's fair, just it seems like they're trying to portray them closer to their comic family unit compared to how it is in the show, which just feels...
"We come into this world alone and we leave the same way. The time we spent in between - time spent alive, sharing, learning together... is all that makes life worth living." - Jean Grey