"Kate Pryde is as fine and admirable a person as Kitty Pryde".
Oh, Charles, will you soon be singing another tune...

He also seems pretty chipper about seeing a dystopian future where Mutants are exterminated or put into camps.
... or maybe he missed that part.


Given the imminent (if not already occurring) breakdown of Byrne and Claremont's ability to work together, and that if memory serves much of this story was Byrne's idea, wondering if the excess verbiage is part of that?
(Not much, mind, because... y'know, it is Claremont.)