Except the whole thing with ongoing comics in general is "the illusion of change". They don't want to actually radically alter the characters or worlds. They want the illusion of change, the appearance of character progression, and the constant threat of "things will never be the same".
But in the end, it is always the same. The toys get broken and then eventually put back together neatly for the next writer. And if things get too far out of hand, they conveniently ignore things that came before that are inconvenient (Pete and MJ's baby, Wolf Cap, Zero Hour, etc) or have a world altering reset (Crisis, Flashpoint, Mephisto magic, or Secret Wars) to get everything back the way it "should" be.
So the mutants will never reach a resolution with the rest of society, or they'll make progress that will quickly be ignored or retconned so they can be perpetually "hated and feared" by the general populace. It's kind of their thing.
