Disney could possibly buy 20th century fox.

Yeah Im sure real fans would love to see Cyclops having a dance off with Mister Sinister.

Putting aside all of the bullshit reasons people have for not wanting the X-Men in the MCU, there is one solid reason not to include them. Simply put, it's too late. Too much MCU history has passed without us actually seeing a mutant. It would be odd if they suddenly appeared with some half baked explanation of where they've been all this time.

For better or worse, and I'm inclined to think worse, Fox has cooked up its own brand of X-Men that deviates from the comics so significantly as to be its own thing. People seem to enjoy this alternative take on the X-Men. Why ruin their enjoyment? I say let the Fox-Men films continue and worry about getting the X-Men into the next iteration of the MCU.

We have to stop looking at studios and start looking at brands. With the aid of two additional studios, Marvel manages to flood the market with their product nearly three times more than their nearest competitor. Next year, six movies will be made based on Marvel IP. Not even Disney could handle that kind of quantity under one studio banner.

The Disney legal death machine is coming for everyone. With a mandate to compete with Netflix, they will need every bit of content and IP they can lay their mousy hands on. The recent acquisitions talks, though currently dead, shows us just how far the Disney's machine is willing to go. Fox holding on to the X-Men isn't about any great love of the fans. It's about money. I doubt it's going to take much for them to consider letting the FF go at this point because it's just not profitable.

That last bit is probably due to Fox.    Let Scott make an Alien movie where he doesn't have to include the slasher porn for Fox and it would no doubt be as big an improvement as it was when RR was allowed to make Deadpool his way.

You may be confusing your minority view with how the public feels about Marvel.

"Only kids love"  (sure...just ignore the demographic info on Marvel movies)
"will not care about 5 years"  (just ignore that the MCU is now close to 10 years old)
"no one takes their movies seriously or respect their movie"  (nice fantasy)

Again...the idea that ignoring most of the X-men characters while butchering some of their greatest stores is "doing a good job" is an amazing thing to watch in action.   Pure fanboyism.  Some are actually trying to twist Fox's many many failures into some kind of "win".    Fascinating.

It would probably help if you actually paid attention to what I really said instead of the Straw Man version which was invented afterward.

Is there any official word on what's studio interference and what's just Ridley Scott not being the filmmaker he used to be?

Mostly just a feeling based on how Fox failed so many times with X-men and FF.    The "Wolverine and Friends" thing extended beyond several directors so it wasn't their idea.

Sounds just like Fox to step in when Scott was trying to make a serious and thought provoking Alien movie.   I can see the memo now:  "Needs more xenomorphs, blood, and gore"

Strike a nerve, tell him that the only reason the X-Men movies did well for their time was because back in the early 2000s there was little to no competition.

Even then the relative success was not very impressive.   Sony blew them out of the water with Spider-Man in 2002.  As much as Sony blew it later, they did start out having more faith in the source material and not being afraid of the costume.    Fox would have no doubt put Spidey into black leather.

I have to be fair and give them credit for taking a chance on X-men in the first place.   That's commendable.   But they have never fully committed to the source material.   There is no time in the comics where Storm and Cyclops are minor characters.   How any X-men fan could be ok with what happened to those two in particular is baffling to me.