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>Do people like everything being related to each other?
Not particularly but, that has been in comics since forever. Universes start off small in a better way (pic related) where small groups of characters interact and grow and over time you get more and more stuff but eventually, despite this expansion, it all gets smaller again in a bad way with more and more soap opera turns as well as secret histories/origins and connections between everyone.

Some of it feels like creative shorthand. Villains in the past were just: I have x power now, better rob banks. Blockbuster movie shorthand usually has the heroes be to blame for some aspect of the villains because you have to focus on the heroes. The Ultimate universe connected everything from mutants to Spider-Man villains all to the super soldier serum. But yeah, overtime the shorthand becomes secret history, origin, relationship, CONNECTIONS EVERYWHERE.

Fuck, look at Wolverine. Early Claremont hinted at Wolverine liking Jean (buying her flowers) but it wasn't until the events started that they became a thing. Then Claremont retconned their relationship in the back up stories of Classic X-Men to imply it had been a love triangle for ages. Then Wolverine Origins had young Wolverine be in love with some random redhead (gee, I wonder where his thing for redheads came from, do ya get it, do ya). Did his younger crush have to be a redhead? Was Wolverine Origins even necessary when Weapon X was a proper origin story?