People ignoring the satellites because they don't feel important things happen in them is fine because they're satellites, they orbit around the main thing. Marvel would happily make ASM a weekly if it wasn't so difficult for production and they still had a wizard like Wacker, but they can't, so they let creators ship ASM fast but at a reasonable pace, so they can tell the big story and then make the missing dollars back with other things. B-Books should exist for people who need more Spider-Man, like the creative teams, and to explore parts of Peter's world that aren't relevant to the main book at the moment. But something's gotta take point.

Casual fans and readers need to immediately know what the big canoli is, and while they can take a few licks like Jonah finding out the identity (and I don't like that that happened in Speccy, but it's been so good for everything that I'll settle for it), they definitely should not tolerate potentially missing these long plots like Harry Goblin and Owl-Octopus War and the meat of big status quo changes like the Felicia romance. Aunt May can sure fight cancer in a B-Book, but if it's actually going to incapacitate or kill her, a real shaker of Spider-Man's status quo, it should be a plot in Amazing. Stuff like classic supporting cast member Ned Leeds dying in a Wolverine crossover? No bueno. Simple is best. Clearly delineated title hierarchy is best.

There is definitely a universe where Hunted happened in Friendly Neighborhood and Amazing readers have to suddenly open an issue to a funeral out of nowhere because Lizard chokes on Kraven Jr's intestines. Think of how wacky that sounds. That's what happened with Harry.

The best part of accidentally creating this topic is actually that it wasn't even a criticism of JMS, it was just a general rule of thumb that satellites shouldn't be making up for key areas where ASM be lacking.