It seems as if a lot of the criticism aimed towards Hickman's run and books about Krakoa in general is that they stray pretty far from common hero morality and decency. Krakoa is extensibility a heavily-armed autonomous ethnostate which is beginning to form its own religion, has codified reproduction as one of its three current principles, and hosts public sacrificial ceremonies (and revivals) as an ecstatic community event. In Marvel canon, it is interpreted by others as a mysterious, dangerous place and joked about as some sort of superpowered orgy island.
So... is it really that bad to dive nose-first in the text and metacommentary that, yes, this IS a cult-like society, that it is open to intra-state terrorism and sabotage, that they are principally motivated less by doing "the good thing" and more about species supremacy? Does that contradict the history of the X-Men and does it alienate readers? Or does it make it more interesting?
