Yeah, shoutiness aside, I do have to lean towards this view. I can't really judge as I haven't read a whole lot of Titans from this era, but going by this alone - it's pretty much pure soap and I'm certainly not seeing prime time drama. Given that around this time Claremont was doing stuff like Days of Future Past, to describe that as soap opera and this as superior is... baffling to me.
I quite enjoyed it as its own story, however, just not somehow above X-men of the era. God Loves, Man Kills came out a few months before and I'm baffled how anyone could say that was pure soap opera.