When they made Mary Jane pursue being a reporter in Ultimate Spider-Man (the cartoon) I honestly didn't care since it was only featured twice in season one and just ignored for the rest of the show except for that one moment in season 4.

In the Playstation 4 series, the writers show how passionate Mary Jane is about being a reporter, and moving on up from that. And her wanting to go to Symkaria, in the middle of a war, for me that was seeing a new side of her.

I'm not saying that comics MJ or any other version of her hasn't shown bravery or boldness, but I liked seeing her doing something different than what we might assume.