Well, you're entitled to your opinion, but it only holds water if you're an disinterested viewer, not someone who hates BND/OMD. Otherwise, you're really just rationalizing.
As I've said in earlier threads, I've liked certain stuff about BND. I think Mr. Negative is an interesting character, and I enjoyed the Harry story that Dematteis did. So this is hardly a case of me wearing shit-colored glasses that automatically make me hate everything BND does. I mean, even if OMD didn't happen, and Harry still returned in the fashion he did--I would still hate it. My opinion of his storyline (aside from that one Dematteis story, of course) has nothing to do with Peter making a deal with the devil.
And likewise, if they had done a similar storyline to this, with rape/violation being portrayed in a humorous light, I wouldn't like it. Crap is crap.
I can safely say that, even if OMD hadn't happened, I WOULD have dropped ASM. Even if the status quo wouldn't put me off, the mediocre writing would have.