Well, at least Ultimate barely focused on the school and it was mostly a (badly executed) team show while the 2017 one made everything about SCIENCE...
I liked the latter and for the same reason I liked the other two: taking a marquee character and pairing him/her up with a less popular name as a way...
It just feels weird that they keep pairing him with superpowered characters or characters he has no relationship with instead of his legit supporting...