What Was the Point of Marvel's Secret Empire?

What Was the Point of Marvel's Secret Empire?
No point at all. "If this journey, one that’s dragged Steve Rogers’ character and Marvel’s own reputation through mud, was one meant to be worth going on, its culmination being the simple message that “Hey, maybe you should stand up and fight back against the bad guys”—a message so explicitly obvious in the realm of superhero comics the fact that it is presented here as a grand statement feels almost disingenuous—rings hollow. In the end, Secret Empire didn’t have anything new to say, only controversy to stoke, in the exact wrong way at the exact wrong time. The journey Marvel Comics asked readers to go on was not worth the destination in the slightest."