I'd rather they just drop the decade skips as well. But if they just do the whole sliding time scale thing, it's not the end of the world. Deadpool was great and the potential its sequels has is exciting, Logan is straight up on the path to be one of the all-time superhero greats, and someone taking on a property like the New Mutants is exactly what we need. We gotta work on making other characters as known as Wolverine, Cyclops, Jean, Storm etc. That'll help insulate the ship instead of making it reliant on a few characters. X-23, Magik, Dani Moonstar, Domino, Cable etc - these are all compelling and unique characters that no other studio can match and there's incredible potential to be mined from them.
Hell, I think having Caliban on a road trip with Charles, Logan and Laura is a downright fantastic idea. The entire story of Logan seems something incredibly original, yet an incredibly faithful blend of preexisting stories. I'm stoked to see Merchant's Caliban performance. Elevating characters like NTW and Caliban, bringing in X-23, these are things we need. Hopefully Fox will continue to find passionate people who can give us something like this in the near future.