If they really are cancelling the line, I think it's for the best. The original point for the Ultimate Universe was to bring a more modern and grounded version of the classic Marvel heroes, such as Spider-Man, the Avengers, and the X-Men. But since the launch of the Ultimate U, this idea of grounding the characters in a more realistic world has bled over into the mainstream universe and for years now writers have taken bits and pieces of things from the Ultimate Universe and incorporated them into the mainstream one. Personally I don't feel that's a bad thing, though I know some will disagree. The Ultimate U really was Marvel's way of playing around with ideas that they weren't sure would work in the mainstream universe, tinkering and changing things up; getting fan reactions and seeing what did and didn't work for the characters. If anything it was more of a playground for writers to mess with the classic status quo that fans so deeply latch onto without upsetting hardcore fans.
But now, the mainstream universe has slowly been incorporating things from the Ultimate U so much so, with things such as making the Avenger a more grounded superhero team, giving them closer ties to groups like S.H.I.E.L.D., tweaking certain characters and looks, such as Captain America, Iron Man, Hawkeye, etc. All to the point that the Ultimate U has become outdated and is simply another random alternate universe. It just doesn't have the same feeling of "epicness" that it originally had, in my opinion, and I feel that it's time to put the universe away for the time being.
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