Remember when….
Storm reaches a critical breaking point where she realizes the X-Men’s traditional ways can no longer protect their future. This shift happened after she rejects Cable’s extremist methods, yet still quietly learns from them. Ororo finds a way to balance every philosophy from the surrounding individuals, including the not present Charles Xavier.
This was because under Claremont’s pen, Ororo struggled during her initial days as a leader, she overcame the set struggles, encountered newer struggles and then overcame them once again WHILST contrasting Scott’s leadership. There are story arcs that strictly followed Xavier’s teachings on the purely reactive moral approach (prior to the massacre of the morlocks), and there are some that contradicted it (after the systematic assault of the morlocks), considering we see the tonal shift in her actions and speeches when dealing with villains after the morlock massacre. She was everything she hoped to be and everything she hoped to not become as a leader. At the conclusion of his tenure, she was on track to becoming the greatest leader considering the established critical eye and balanced take she ultimately reached after learning from her failures from all those years of navigating her responsibility as a dual leader of both the X-men and the Morlocks. A worldview that differs from her colleagues, yet it subtly takes from them and balances them including hers but sadly, her sidelining began after his tenure.