While I think it eventually recovered, I do agree and generally consider the nadir of Uncanny to be pretty much everything from the Mutant Massacre to the end of the Muir Island Saga. There's just so much crap and bad decisions going on during this period.
And I could go on for days about how the decision to bring Jean back and poor writing in response to it damaged Cyclops as a character to the point where I'm not sure he ever recovered (it's why I love teen!Scott so much).
From what I understand and have pieced together in various interviews, it's always sounded like there was a lot of friction between Claremont and the rest of the writers/editors. I've often wondered if some of the powers that be weren't mad that an upstart title like X-Men was eclipsing what they thought "should" have been the flagship titles like Spider-Man, Avengers, and FF.
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And I could go on for days about how the decision to bring Jean back and poor writing in response to it damaged Cyclops as a character to the point where I'm not sure he ever recovered (it's why I love teen!Scott so much).
From what I understand and have pieced together in various interviews, it's always sounded like there was a lot of friction between Claremont and the rest of the writers/editors. I've often wondered if some of the powers that be weren't mad that an upstart title like X-Men was eclipsing what they thought "should" have been the flagship titles like Spider-Man, Avengers, and FF.