There's a difference between moving on and changing because circumstances changed and spend years and years insisting the character was WROOOONG. For example, Jim Zub wrote Cyclops in Champions that was a lot closer to boyscout Cyclops without having to spend the entire issue with characters doing non-sense rants about how he was wrong and evil. And this same X-office has no problems with characters like Wolverine and Bishop being heroes. It's just Cyclops the one that has to WROOOOOOOOONG.