Okay, at the end of a react video, Nerdy Daily had some really good commentary about the themes and story-line in this first season of X-Men '97 that express a lot of the feelings and ideas I wished I could articulate so I'm going to link it below under the cut starting at a timestamp after the episode finished.
The video below does contain spoilers but like I said, the commentary is important and I figure some people would like to see it.