Well, either Zdarsky is setting this up to be a chess match between Charles and Reed - or the X-men leaders are being written wrong. Magneto, Scott, Charles, and the rest present would have all anticipated the FF arrival on Krakoa. To say they got caught with their pants down is an understatement.
The one thing you don’t get a sense of is the time lapse between the video call and the council meeting.
I still have an issue with the forced conflict. But again ... it’s comics. In the end you hope the characters are written faithfully to their current respective series, but I think it’s been a mix of hits and misses so far.