Originally Posted by
salarta
Since you're specifically mentioning Lorna, I'll chime in.
Lorna has bigger reasons for use than simply "I want my fave to get some." If that's all it was, her situation would be no different than a lot of characters. The complicating factor is that she has decades of poor depictions, and the impact they've had on perception of her at Marvel. Because of blind nostalgia, established views they don't want to question, Lorna is seriously undervalued at Marvel. This leads to them thinking she's not viable for practically anything other than making other characters (usually men, e.g. Havok) look good.
Prime example: Gifted. When it launched, Marvel gave Blink a relaunched Exiles book and put her on a team. But when the show's version of Lorna broke out unexpectedly? Nothing. Possible popularity for Blink was enough to give her stuff, but actual popularity for Lorna wasn't.
That's not even going into all the bits and pieces over time, like how it took 43 years for Lorna to finally get her origin story told (which Marvel didn't promote). Bottom line, Lorna isn't a random character on a level playing field that simply happens to miss out vs other characters in equal need. She's maligned by mistaken assumptions about her worth and potential at Marvel. The only way to truly fix that within Marvel is having to make an actual effort at reassessing what they think they know about her. Which means using her for real. As a character in her own right. With storylines (Genosha, Apocalypse cult, Malice) and relationships (Scarlet Witch, Jean Grey, Iceman, Quicksilver) that haven't been acknowledged or used in years to decades.
Hickman can focus on "soap opera, big stakes and narrative drive" while this is done for Lorna, whether by him or someone else. In fact, Lorna is ideal for breaking new and interesting ground on all three specifically because she hasn't been used and explored enough in the past 50 years since her creation.
If Krakoa and Giant Size X-Men are involved, hopefully Marvel acknowledges Lorna was there and did what she did. I recall another Lorna fan saying that at one point, Marvel later tried to claim Jean launched Krakoa into space instead.