Originally Posted by
WebLurker
As a few others have pointed out, Marvel is a company made up of people with their own opinions, which will vary from people who are very onboard and those who are not. Mary Jane does seem to be coming back into the fold for the franchise as a whole, however if that's because the creators that like her in her traditional role are directing new content or just things swinging back that way after the other status quo has run its course for the time being can be debated.
I mean, with creators, it's not really a black and white "we love her"/"we hate her." I mean, Joe Quesada, who thought that Spider-Man and MJ shouldn't be married in the main comics, did go on record as liking the Spider-Girl series where they were a couple. Dan Slott, who's kinda persona non gratta with the married camp, did write a miniseries about them as a couple, which he stated was a project that he wanted to do. Conversely, Gerry Conway, who's well-known as a writer who wanted them to be a couple, has stated that he didn't think the should be married. J. Michael Straczynski has stated that he liked writing them as a married couple, but when OMD came around, he took the assignment professionally (as I recall, his main complaints were that he was micromanaged in regards to the specifics of the plot, not that he was given the job in the first place).
A good writer won't always turn out gold. Dan Slott may well be a good writer (haven't personally found that his writing clicks with me much, but mileage may vary), but still have been the wrong choice for Spider-Man (or at least as the main creative voice). I mean he really seemed to love high sci-fi concepts and doing out of the box stuff that didn't really fit with a street-level character. Remember when his post-Spider-Man career was announced to include the F4, my first thought was that seemed to be a much better fit for his writing style and interests.
(As far as Slott being thin-skinned with fans, I also saw him put up with a lot of abuse from them as well -- remember seeing on the forums people blaming him for OMD despite that being before his time. I wasn't overly-impressed with how he handled himself, but still, he had a lot of provocation.)