Originally Posted by
FUBAR007
Piskor has the same view of Cyclops as Claremont: leaving Madelyne at the beginning of X-Factor completely and irrevocably destroyed the character.
AIUI, the "random dude" is actually Mastermind pretending to be Ted Roberts. (In 616, Ted Roberts was a college classmate of Jean's in the Silver Age. It was ambiguous whether they were truly dating or just friends, but Jean continued to pine for Scott the whole time anyway. Eventually, Scott and Jean got together, and Roberts stopped appearing. The only other thing notable about him was that his brother Ralph had a brief career as the supervillain Cobalt Man.)
All that said, Grand Design is a self-contained alternate timeline. As such, it's nothing to get worked up about.