Originally Posted by
Weather
The autors have already told (and it was clear in the page you mentioned the Storm quote) that the X-men don't fight quite often in this reality. They don't have to. They live in peace, in an Utopia. Nate doesn't allow villians to exist, I imagine. So, if they don't fight, they get rusty. That's why Storm seemed purposely weak and Magneto and Kurt even improved the argument with their lines.
Your favorite character is in function of the story, not the other way around.