It would if there were actually writers and editors of the quality that was seen back then still on the various X-books,that created/produced those stories which really isn't the case any longer as can be seen with the utter mess New Mutants has once again degenerated into.
So it's pretty easy to see why a walled garden would be setup to sort of play in involving those storylines, which wouldn't result in too much of a mess to be cleaned up later when finished.