Ah, Wizard Magazine. That brings me back.
Honestly, I wouldn’t put too much stock into Wizard’s claims. They were openly shills for Marvel, with agreements in place to promote certain storylines and agendas. Wizard even had exclusive, in-continuity Spider-Man comics. 2007 was a tough year for them, their former editor-in-chief had just been fired, and they were trying harder than ever to sustain themselves with exclusive interviews and tie-ins. Unfortunately, they folded less than three years later.
In 1997, Wizard was even running articles demanding that Peter and MJ divorce, that Peter needs to be de-aged, and that he should never have a child. It… was quite the stance, and seems almost identical to the Quesada and Brevoort and other interviews they conducted.
Honestly, their entire "How to Fix Spider-Man" article from that era basically panned out completely - "make him poor," "make him single", "bring back Aunt May", "make him feel younger", etc.
Editorial basically followed their advice (or wrote it themselves...) and here we are today with a large portion of fans complaining that they broke the book and characters just to return to and stagnate in the same "glory days" so many were happy to leave behind.