I believe the writers think that we fans are all too stupid to notice that they've totally destroyed two Alpha Flight characters for the sake of some F-rate plotline that anybody who knows anything about these characters hates.
How can we express our supreme displeasure at these mind-blowingly stupid developements?
Maybe Mr. Loeb should go work for a title that more fits his so-called "skills", like The Inquirer (He's not good enough for The Weekly World News) Kyle was looking like WWN's Bat Boy for a while there . . . :P