Nope, all that pretty much "happened", as much as that verb can ever be applied to fiction, and Marvel hasn't had any major editorial turnovers, so, yeah, if you buy their books, you're just handing money to the same group entity that dictated all that.

In the display case by the cash register at my store, we've got a small statue of Comic Book Guy, from The Simpsons. For a while, he was at the BACK of the case, faced toward the back, casting his disapproving sneer upon us as we worked the register. The subtext was clear: "DON'T BE THIS GUY. Don't hate everything."

If you're looking for stuff to dislike, yeah, you'll find plenty in these stories. If I weren't working in a comic book store and didn't have some small degree of obligation to my customers to read these stories, I wouldn't have read them. For the same reason, though, I've cultivated the ability to read them and say, "wow, they really turned this book around" and "I didn't like the way this was going at first, but now it's really grabbed me."

Assuming that any of those actually APPLY to a given book, that is. I'm more than capable of pointing something out and saying, "man, this book has really taken a nose-dive into the toilet." *cough*JSA*cough*