I agree. The thing about Jean is that despite her empathy and compassion she will fight for what she believes in and she will fight to protect her people (her people being mutants, people she considers family, innocents, etc). Jean is a soldier just like all the other X-men and she should get in on some of the action.
I just don't ever want her to become a killer like Wolverine or Psylocke. That would be overkill for her, especially since she is responsible, in part for Dark Phoenix. I think that is what Tom Taylor was trying to say, why Jean was so pacifist in his run - she had been a part of something destructive and now she wanted to "heal" rather than destroy.