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I think the issue here is that you're applying real-world logic to super-powered fiction.
You clearly take issue with the fact that Heather killed someone.
Does this make Captain America a bad leader? Wolverine a bad leader? Justice a bad leader?
And, the person who she killed was Snowbird, who as you later say:
So your dislike of Heather's leadership is personal one, no? Had her first kill been Earthmover would you have been bothered?
Okay, being that specific; Mac was leading the team when they died against The Collective.
That's six dead Alphans (including himself) and one severely injured, that he led into battle.
So, by devil's advocate logic; Heather was a better leader as her team was streamlined with less members and less experienced members, and yet still achieved more.By the time she'd had 20 or so issues to herself, she was down to two other full-fledged members, who must have been getting a little nervous by this point.
And just to clarify here; nowhere have I ever said that I think Heather was a better leader - just that she's referenced as such throughout the last two-thirds of the original series; by the writers who are writing her and not Mac as leader.