Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
Brevoort in that interview is repeating and rephrasing stuff from his manifesto published more than a decade ago and as he said in that interview that manifesto was something that set the tone for and guided the approach of the BND team to write Spider-Man, all of whom as Brevoort claims in this interview were picked and put together by him (and so would obviously feel some amount of indebtedness to stick with his version and take).
So this isn't a casual conversation at all, it's about how one guy's idea of the character and its impact on comics, and his attempt to justify that, essentially his legacy as far as Spider-Man is concerned. So it's more than fair to contest that, especially if you think, as I do, that his legacy as far as Spider-Man is concerned, has been negative.