Originally posted by ShadowFyreNo definitely not, this (like many X characters post-Hickman) is basically a different character from the classic days.
I never read much with Sinister in it since a kid. Was he always the jokester type? I don't really recall much about his actual personality.
But to be fair... the Sinister of old, although a great character, was never such a developed personality that he could be written as anything other than a mega villain. He was a great villain but ultimately one-note. How do you take that person and make them a regular fixture in a political drama (ie the Quiet Council of Krakoa)? The solution seems to be to (really, really) play up the campy elements of Sinister in order to make him a bit more dynamic while preserving the over-the-top aspects about him that are arguably his core appeal.
And to be doubly fair, Sinister was very much a campy villain pre-Krakoa and his evolution into this characterization predates Hickman's X-Men. But, the Hickman team definitely ran with it, and it's now lasting past Hickman's tenure.