Originally Posted by
Sutekh
Definitely. One of my favorite things about DC, back in the eighties, was how they were embracing their legacy characters. The New Teen Titans were growing up, Dick Grayson had left behind being Robin, Batman's sidekick, and had his own team, and his own new superhero identity as Nightwing. Barry and Hal had moved on, and Wally and Kyle were the 'new' Flash and Green Lantern. All sorts of change was in the air. And yeah, it all went south, but I liked that sort of thing.
I could totally see an X-verse where various older X-Men had aged out, for various reasons. Scott and Jean were now the co-headmasters of the school. Xavier was off in Shiar space (or dead, or at the UN full-time mutant ambassador-ing, whatever). Sean runs Black Air. Emma is trying to turn the Hellfire Club around (two steps forward, one step back, some things are resistant to change, and there's always the risk that it pulls her back into the dark, rather than her dragging it into the light...). Dani, Sam and 'Berto are now the big leads of the X-Men, while Storm's in Wakanda, Scott barely ever leaves the mansion, etc.
The previous generation doesn't have to be utterly killed off or replaced, some can take on more distant roles, such as the Xavier role, or liaising with SHIELD, or the UN, or the Shiar, or the Savage Land, or Black Air, or Wakanda, or whatever. So many places they can be sent, without necessarily just taking the cheap out of saying 'all the olds died, now the New Mutants / Generation X / New X-Men generation is running things.'
On the other hand, just because *I* have enjoyed many decades of Cyclops, Storm, etc. stories and would be satisfied with their generation retiring from the field and letting some new people step up, newer fans haven't had that, and the company obviously doesn't want to put all of their *proven* cash cows out to pasture just because I've read enough Scott-love-triangle nonsense to last me three lifetimes. They'll keep retelling variations of those stories for the next five decades, for younger audiences.