It's nice to see them talking like friends and not dwelling on the past but talking about it frankly and not bitterly. Because Steve respects Tony.
Admittedly the 50-state initiative might've sounded cool on paper but how much of them actually saw action? Especially when all the major stuff always happens in New York.
No, Bendis has Stark beg for forgiveness from Rogers and the whole thrust of the story was that Stark was 100 percent wrong and Rogers was 100 percent right and Stark had now realized this, begged for forgiveness, and been absolved. I literally flipped off the book when I read it. There aren't enough curses in the english language for how much I hated that book. I'd have to mix in curses from french, thai, and chinese just to come close.