I think X-Men will get better once:
a) The Claremont sanity dies down and let him have only one title to write. He's just not writing like he used to.
b) Joe Q is no longer EiC
c) All the editors are fired.
With Chuck Austen finishing his run, I think improvements should start real soon anyway.
About solo titles, I agree I think they are ridiculous. You could have a solo title on my favorite character and I wouldn't pick it up (except MAYBE if it was an obscure character or character in "limbo"😉. There's just too many comics about characters we already know too much about (i.e. Wolverine). But of course those characters will never get killed off (even for at least a year) because they rack in too much dough.
Although ... "MadroX" is awesome and original.