Straight trash despite the roster consisting of some of my favorite characters.
I really enjoyed it up to a point.
"We live in a world of cowards. We live in a world full of small minds who are afraid. We are ruled by those who refuse to risk anything of their own. Who guard their over bloated paucities of power with money. With false reasoning. With measured hesitance. With prideful, recalcitrant inaction. With hateful invective. With weapons. F@#K these selfish fools and their prevailing world order." Tony Stark
You may be mixing the dates here. When Bendis took the Avengers, they were not the big thing in Marvel they would eventually become. There was a single Avengers team (the original West Coast Avengers ended many years before); the pet team of Marvel (the focus of crossover events and with several related teams) was the X-Men. As for the all-star line-up, let's remember that was just Spider-Man and Wolverine. Spider-Woman and Luke Cage were minor characters of decades before just rescued from oblivion (things worked fine for them and became important characters; but may have failed, as they failed for Sentry, who never got off the ground), and Captain America and Iron Man were not exactly hot stuff before the MCU.