OK that's dumb. So, because wolverine, storm , etc weren't original members of the X-Men then they are redundant or something added on later and not part of the original concept?

Comics are living bodies of work. Which makes them special. My problem lies in restarting the existing concepts and then replacing them with basic crap. i'm sure David wouldn't have used a matrix character if Byrne hadn't created the mess.

Example. Jason Todd was horrible. replace him with a good character like Tim Drake an dpeople get on with their lives. No supergirl is better than a3rd rate replacement for the same "add on" charcter concept.