Yeah, I love geeking out on the science. I'm still waiting for Storm to pull in some sprites! Visually stunning, and mega-powerful, very brief, electrical discharges that go upwards to the edge of space from thunderstorms.
Re Aaron, yeah, he's had some bad runs in the past for me, and I don't like everything he's doing in Avengers, but overall it's a clean delivery of a fun story with a peppering of real-world politics. I wish the X-Men were doing as well, honestly.
As for Ororo and Jean, yes, especially in a balanced team context, I think they are very difficult for writers to write well because they are so tremendously powerful they break most plots, and characterization-wise most writers struggle to present them as rounded personalities. Hence, we get nerfed, one-note presentations so often.