Lol this! It makes too much sense to make MJ more wholesome. Otherwise why would May troll Peter by setting him up with Miss Flightypants.
I also second and third everyone's opinions that the marriage and MJ's personality suffered because the bulk of 90's Marvel was inane in general. Can you imagine how the marriage would have been written in current times under say, the joint writing of Matt Fraction and Kelly Sue DeConnick?