You know, I almost wish Claremont had left it alone and the story had never been mentioned again. This deals with it, but of course it also cements it into continuity. If he was going to deal with it, he could have said that it was all a hallucination, or, like someone else said before, that the Avengers were mind-controlled as well. But instead he said that no, the entire story happened exactly as it was presented to us before. And that doesn't work because it is literally impossible for the Avengers to be so stupid.