Agree completely. And to those that stomp their feet about canon and retcons and the like, I'd say this: You already recognize the spongy nature whether you acknowledge it or not. Cyclops was an 18 year old in 1960 and is somehow still in his prime years in 2020. The world in the books continues to match ours but the characters never age (or, better yet, their children often age but the parents don't), no one ever stays dead, villains come and go and die and try the same plan over and over, the world gets catastrophically annihilated without any real repercussions, etc. I could go on. We constantly suspend our disbelief, it's a necessary part of enjoyably (and sanely) reading comics.
Also, how on earth do we expect quality content, even from the very best writers, in a universe constrained by 60 years of content? No author would do that to themselves or accept restraints like that. It is numbing to the creative process and limiting to the ideas you can generate.