Gosh, don’t y’all ever fucking tire of this constant who is better Jean or Emma? Whether be it be power level, Scott’s true love, etc etc etc.
I think it is safe to say that Jean is above average when it comes to intelligence. She's not a genius, but to me when I think of average intellect I think of simple folks and not folks who lead, solve problems, have college level education or some college, etc. Jean has been shown as intelligent in X-men Red most recently and she wasn't portrayed as average in Morrison's run or the 90's.
Both Jean and Emma are characters that are portrayed as powerful, intelligent in their own ways, and capable of being great leaders.
I've been an Emma fan for decades and she's too good to be with Scott. They should ignore everything that Morrison ever wrote including that.
Scott has Storm, Rogue, Selene Mystique, Psylocke in his mind too. Scott can love more then one person in different ways. His relationship with Emma was written as more realistic in that sense. His heart jumped more for her in Endsong.
Going forward Scott will have love for more then Emma and Jean. Much like Archie, Veronica and Betty
Yeah, this idea that someone can ONLY have feelings for one person EVER it's absurd and even creepy. Specially considering he's twice a widower of the same woman, which Emma knew going in (well, he wasn't widower twice, but he was married). And you can love people in non-romantic ways too. Scott chose Emma very clearly in NXM, Endsong, AXM, etc, and even when Jean was alive seemed to be falling out of (romantic/sexual) love for her, hence the difficulty in touching and having sex with her. It's not creepy he has feelings for Jean even more than it's Corsair or Banshee for their late wives.
In truth Generation-X was it's own thing with hardly any strong connections to the X-men proper minus the occasional crossover. But from the start of the affair in New X-men right up to the aftermath of AVX Emma was tied to the X-men by virtue of her relationship to Scott(Scemma). Its because of that relationship that she was so prominently featured, that she was seen as the main x-woman, that she was considered co-leader of the X-men among other things. Now you may not accept that but it is what it is. Unless you think all those things would have occurred without Scemma?
The last years have contradicted everything about Endsong, the characters lives have moved from this story. They breaking up on AvX, Bendis run were they weren't together, Phoenix Resurretion were Scott apologized to Jean for this and whatever was going with teen Cyke and Jean. Those things are canon too. Endsong is old.