Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
Again the issue is time is being given to them at the expense of X-Men. Go back to the '80s, the era of Jim Shooter and you will find that the golden years of Claremont co-existed with the best Avengers run of all time (Roger Stern), with the second best FF run (Byrne's FF), best Daredevil (Miller), best Thor (Simonson) and as good as Iron Man is likely to get (Michelinie's Iron Man). So there's no excuse for this kind of thing. Let's not forget too that Carol Danvers owes tremendously to Chris Claremont and his run on X-Men for making her into a prominent character, especially after the mess of Avengers #200 (Carol telling the Avengers to get bent and choosing to stay in X-Men is a pretty telling moral statement as it is).
You could give spotlight to Guardians of the Galaxy and others without undermining the X-Men. The defining run of Black Panther (Priest's) happened in the late 90s when X-Men were still top. And Christopher Priest has declared himself to be a huge admirer of Claremont and cited his take on X-Men as an inspiration for trying to make Black Panther work as an ongoing.
So that stuff could have happened without throwing a chair at the back of the head of the X-Men.
All we have is the Avengers getting to be the biggest team in the Marvel and they didn't do it by earning it, and not by good stories (CIVIL WAR being a pretty bad story). but by cheating and editorial putting the thumbs on the scales. Which they did again with the Inhumans, and we again got pretty sub-par and boring stories out of that.