Originally Posted by
Aruran.
I'll say it now because it's a point a lot of people tend to forget, but if Peter and MJ got back together, what happens next?
That's really what Marvel is avoiding, because they easily would've been back together by this point. I was a kid in the 2000s so I didn't read Amazing Spider-Man I read Ultimate instead, but I did read about OMD on the internet when it happened. Once in a while I look up Spider-Man to see what was going on, and I was always surprised that Peter and Mary Jane weren't back together. In 2012 I finally started reading Amazing, then I understood why they didn't get back together.
I don't think there is anyone at Marvel who believe Peter and MJ shouldn't be together because they don't like them as a couple, but instead they don't want them together because of where the relationship goes. Had it been any other character the same situation would be right before our eyes. Marvel doesn't want Peter's life to be easy, and it is easy when he's with someone who loves him. The reason why Peter and MJ won't get back together as of this moment, is because Marvel's direction right now is focused on the difficulties Peter faces in his life. MJ makes his life easier cause he's gonna be happy when he's with her and vice versa.
I don't think Marvel can maintain the ship teasing forever though, it gets sick really fast. Right now they aren't gonna bother with it, but in a couple of years they might try it again. In my guess right now, MJ might just get 2 more appearances in the book before Spider-Verse, and she won't appear in Spider-Verse that much either. In 2015 they'll probably pick up a subplot with her and Ollie, and then break them up. At that point I expect Slott to leave and a new writer would come on and get freedom to do whatever they want with the characters.