Ohh, I had the issues of The Pulse all lined up to post tonight, but given this much more in depth retrospective I'll hold off.
This just goes to highlight that all the talk about "everything happened but the marriage" around Brand New Day is nonsensical. It's essentially been a soft reboot of not just trying to take Peter back to his status quo pre-marriage, but wiping away practically every development for the supporting characters too - Flash back in the army without explanation, Harry alive, Jonah Spidey-obsessed and uncaring of Osborn killing one of his employees and trying to murder others and all this. The BND stories only work if you essentially forget any development for any of those characters that's happened in 20 years or so.