Agreed. Editorial had their foot up his ass, then he had mandate for that crossover crap, finally his run was cancelled early with him getting to tell very little of his own story before he's told to write the 05 or nothing.
Heck i'm still salty because I miss his Uncanny. That was & still is the last good X-Book for me. Nobody's really done much (good lol) since, and Hickman hasn't won me over yet either.