Yeah, if you don't know the characters' histories, it probably has less impact. It's particularly annoying because all three got stuck with 'female insanity' -- while Jean's first Dark Phoenix period was epic and non-gendered for the most part, her later cycles of life/insanity/death have mainly been All About Her Boyfriends, Polaris was daddy complex nutso, and Wanda of course had, quite literally a 'hysterical pregnancy', and then kept fucking with the world because she couldn't deal with not being a mommy.