But let me be clear about this before people begin jumping down my throat. Having more diversity in comics is great. More female heroes is fantastic as well. The problem is the way Marvel has been going about it. Replacing preexisting male characters with women isn't the right way of doing it. Neither is having  Miles Morales running around in one comic as Spider-Man and Peter Parker in another as Spider-Man. Or Bruce Banner being gone and someone else being the Hulk. Or Sam Wilson being Captain America in one book and Steve Rogers is Captain America in another. 

Now there is nothing wrong with Miles Morales but he's not Spider-Man. The character deserves his own name.  Sam Wilson is the Falcon not Captain America. There is nothing wrong with the Falcon name he's a great character.

Moving onto Jane Foster as Thor. Foster had been gone from the comics for decades. It was only her showing up in the first Thor movie that brought her back into focus. IT was a terrible idea to shoehorn her into the mantle of Thor. Oh and on top of that the real Thor is still around. 

There are so many better ways these characters could have been used. Many fans I know don't dislike Foster,Wilson, the New Ms Marvel. They just didn't like that the characters they liked were pushed aside.

Honestly how hard would it be to write Miles Morales with a different superhero name? Did  Amadeus Cho really need to become the new Hulk? Why could Cho become something else? 

The problem isn't the fact that comics are being more diverse or that there are more women. The problem is the way in which Marvel comics is going about it.

Oh and I say it so much i'm becoming a broken record. The price of comics is entirely out of hand. The content is not worth the amount that they cost.

Another factor is Marvel tries too hard to be "hip" and young. Not unlike the middle aged guys in the 1960s trying to appeal the counter culture of the time. Stan Lee for the most part kept it to the editorial side in the Soap Box and Bullpen Bulletin. In Modern Marvel its everywhere, narration, dialogue and internal monologue 

 

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The issue isn't diversity. The issue is legacy characters, and you'd have 
the same issues if you were replacing white males with white males. 
Look at Robin. And I get what you are saying that attempts at diversity 
are what's driving legacy characters, but it's a bit awkward to say that 
it's to blame.

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I'm not certain I'm following you correctly. Hopefully I am and i'll be responding correctly to you. 

 I wouldn't say that diversity is exactly to blame for legacy characters. I think it's more that the creative forces behind these moves were being lazy. That and I think there maybe some legal issues going on. Shoehorning these new characters into preexisting superheroes. May muddy the waters when it comes to creators rights over the characters they created. 

For the most part I'm not a big fan of legacy characters. The only one's i've been okay with were Robin, Flash, and Green Lantern.

With Robin  Dick Grayson grew up and became a successful character on his own. Jason Todd had come and gone before I even knew about him.  So by the time I began reading Detective comics regularly it had already been old news.

With the Green Lantern it's easy to accept new ones because they are a police force. 

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Mar-Vell came back? I thought he's about the only character who's death pretty much sticks. 

But I do now recall a succession of characters after Monica using the name. All of whom were white