I hear something similar. He wanted Storm for the love interest, and Colossus for the organic steel and the role that he would play with that mutation. He ended up giving Emma a second mutation, and combined the two.
Yeah. Its not people annoyed after one solicit. Its the past few years, and how similar previous solicits have been, and what the result of those issues were.
Yeah, this is all fan supposition and wild extrapolation, there's no sourcing. There are extremely clear textual sources we all know well for how Joe fucked up Spider-Man with OMD and added a fanfic insert with doomed new love interest Carlie Cooper. There isn't any with X-Men or Emma and Jean. This page amounts to 'well, he did this here and someone told me he might have done this too.' That's not legitimate at all.
Further, the anti-Peter/MJ vendetta at Marvel actually goes back decades before him - editorial long before Quesada had been trying to undo it for years. He was merely the guy that made it stick. I miss the marriage still. But that's not relevant to X-Men. No one was gunning for Scott and Jean.
I'd get that if it was the first or even the twentieth time a solicit has threatened to make Emma go full evil again. But since the '90s it's probably not the fiftieth or the hundredth. Emma is a mainstay now, she's not going anywhere and she is promoted as a key part of this book. And again: the Inhumans are gone. They can't hurt you.
It's one thing to be cautious and wary. I completely get that. It's another to jump to 'Emma is clearly a side character/villain in this book I have not read yet.' Sorry, that's horseshit.
So you think it is a wild and pure coincidence that Quesada, going through a horrible marriage and divorce, takes over and suddenly three of the longest tenured marriages in all of Marvel are killed in horrific and brutal fashion? With him ON RECORD saying marriages make comic characters worse. Okay then.
Kitty is straight! I love Claremont but he says a lot. He also planned to put Kitty with Gambit at one time.