Originally Posted by
whitecrown
I don't think he hated him, not at first. He only lost respect for him after the Maddie incident. A fan mentioned meeting him at a signing and actually asked him if he hated Cyclops or not. Claremont said he didn't but he was upset at what was being done to him. And Claremont has said numerous times that he felt Cyclops was ruined as a character after the Maddie incident and that no readers could ever respect him for abandoning his wife and child. That there were kids out there who had been abandoned by a parent so how could someone who was a role model do exactly that and traumatize these kids all over again.
Like I said in a previous post, it's something Cyclops has never been able to live down the same way Hank Pym can't ever get past being a wife abuser.
You'll notice that whenever Claremont does go back to writing Cyclops, he always has to resolve his relationship with Maddie. For Claremont, that was the original sin of the character and he can't be salvaged until that's done.