TBH, I'd rather have a story where nobody seems to be holding the idiot ball, even if it's arguably inconsistent with prior portrayals. Honestly, Maria Hill's characterization history is just a mess anyway: she's been this competent and generally admirable and she's also been the one who kicked off the original superhero civil war by escalating to tranq-guns over a modest political disagreement with CAPTAIN FUCKING AMERICA. Although if that version of Maria Hill shows up in this as a Skrull--"I'm clearly the right Maria! Capture everyone who isn't me! TRANQUILIZERS! NOW!"--I might be amused enough to let it slide.

We can't just say "Well, obviously they'd be ready for that" just because we know that if they didn't have some kind of countermove, there'd be no story. Prior Skrull invasion plots were not ready for that. This approach would have been sufficient to handle those. So North is taking a story subgenre that usually has at least one faction acting like idiots and going, "Okay, but what if competence?" So I'm intrigued.