Let's say you're Steve in this situation. What do you do?
You don't even know what a "reddit" is, so you don't know of Scott's omniscience.
The Phoenix is on the way and the planet is in trouble.
Your mutant expert tells you to make moves.
You try to talk to Scott, he's still mad about prior circumstances and wants to take advantage of the Phoenix to right prior wrongs, but in a way that potentially puts everything else at risk.
On top of that, Magneto and Emma Frost are in deep with whatever they're planning. Red Flags.
Scott ain't even telling you the plan.
You still gotta answer to other people and figure out a way to assure everyone that the Phoenix won't just go Freiza on the planet.
Do you:
Leave everything to Scott's unspoken plan and hope it doesn't go to shit like literally every time Phoenix clashes with the X-Men and just hope the fallout isn't too bad?
Risk further conflict by just taking Hope into custody and possibly weaken Earth even further?
Try to negotiate further at the risk of getting chest beamed in?
Other?
You don't even know what a "reddit" is, so you don't know of Scott's omniscience.
The Phoenix is on the way and the planet is in trouble.
Your mutant expert tells you to make moves.
You try to talk to Scott, he's still mad about prior circumstances and wants to take advantage of the Phoenix to right prior wrongs, but in a way that potentially puts everything else at risk.
On top of that, Magneto and Emma Frost are in deep with whatever they're planning. Red Flags.
Scott ain't even telling you the plan.
You still gotta answer to other people and figure out a way to assure everyone that the Phoenix won't just go Freiza on the planet.
Do you:
Leave everything to Scott's unspoken plan and hope it doesn't go to shit like literally every time Phoenix clashes with the X-Men and just hope the fallout isn't too bad?
Risk further conflict by just taking Hope into custody and possibly weaken Earth even further?
Try to negotiate further at the risk of getting chest beamed in?
Other?