i'm not sure what goes here

At least two of the new X-books were not subject to any research whatsoever.

No one involved in writing or editing Phoenix knew who Corsair was before the issue went to script. It just isn't possible to have written him so off, like a knockoff MCU Star-Lord looking for a big score, when he's been a trusted friend since the 1980. Every writer will have their own take on any given character, and wildly different variations can diverge over the course of decades of stories, but this version of Corsair is just not a valid continuation of anything that has ever been written about him before, across any medium.

And there is no way that anyone involved in creating X-Factor has done any reading on any of their characters. None of the established characters would sign off to work for Alex's shady team of reality TV cops. Cecilia Reyes is joining a military operation? She wasn't even comfortable being an X-Man, and she at least agreed with their values. Frenzy and Pyro are assaulting dissidents because some general and her corporate overlord ordered it? They should be attacking the humans to help the mutants escape, not taking any part in raids on their own community.

(Also Havoc's clear disdain for Pyro, while perhaps in character for him to express, feels too much like it carries authorial intent. Pyro's work with the Marauders was a hell of a lot more useful than anything Alex has ever done as a failed superhero. Alex isn't the one suffering with losers here)

Polaris, I can accept that she's been through a lot and finds herself in an uncertain space. But if she actually intends to be a part of an underground movement, she's simply too big of a name in this universe to resurface as the random underling to a group of nameless generics. She was one of the leaders of Genosha. She was chosen from among millions to represent Krakoa as one of their X-Men. She does not need to prove herself to any of these people, much less get talked down to by them. Is Mark Russell not aware that she has a history outside of being Alex's girlfriend?

And I get that X-Factor aspires to be "funny" but Warren just flying off to make his escape, leaving his entire team behind to die, without even checking to see if they were alive first, is wildly out of character for him verging upon an act of malicious character assassination.

So far, this entire book has the air of people who think that they're far cleverer than their audience and can't contain their smugness about it. But the message this story is trying to articulate about consumerism and social media democracy is too shallow for anything to land, the treatment of its leads is too mean to care, and it's depiction of the world post-Krakoa is discordant with that of the other X-Books.

Still, I take small solace in knowing Lorna will show up to wreck them before long.

Polaris fans deserve more than another return to Lorna/Alex.

It's just raw publishing momentum. No one knows anything about Alex other than he used to date Lorna, so he must be dating Lorna if you're going like to write him. And unlike all of these other zombie ships that keep on staggering along, I don't think anyone ever liked them together to begin with.