These are just my thoughts, i do not speak for anyone else but myself.
I agree, the CotV need to be stopped, they want the world and will take it by force. That is their intent and need to be stopped before they have the numbers to enact such an action. They are no better than Knull, the Cotati, the people under the command of the Peacock dude etc.
But that's not my issue with what i read, my problems with this is that they are sent to gather info for any future conflicts and to me that means stealth and tactical planning in an unknown environment with an unknown enemy and i didn't see that.
What I saw then getting on an elevator all wily nilly without thinking "Hey maybe there's a sensor here?" and then waiting for the enemy with no explanation on how they knew they were spotted.
People argue that the AI and the city would have detected them regardless, i can abide by that logic but the problem is that it didn't detect them until they got on the damn elevator. And maybe i am wrong but i feel they could have avoided that all together because Darwin would have sprouted wings or levitated and Synch could have just duplicated it and both carried Laura down and they avoid the Elevator and we get a few more panels where they get to investigate the city before they would have been inevitably caught because they were always going to get caught because that's what happens when on a suicide mission.
Then we move to after the AI alerts them to the intrusion, it doesn't sound a citywide alert, or they don't show it, that gives away its awareness of the X-men's presence and therefore they have no reason to believe they were caught but still they get off the elevator and just wait for the Children to come to them because they know they were spotted? Does nobody else find this both confusing and somewhat stupid but me? Now if the next time we see them they give an explanation then cool, i take back all the bad things i said and thought, if they don't they i will be even more pissed.
That's my problem with what i read, it's not that i don't agree with the thought that they need to stop them by any means or that there will be morally questionable actions taken to achieve this, its the lack of well thought out actions.
Laura given her past and training should know all this but instead i see her acting like an idiot just like Logan, which frankly was another thing that ticked me off, i don't care if in the process of defending herself and her team she off's some of them because that's how far she will go to defend someone if it needs to go there, i just don't want her to act like Logan and be an idiot.