Yeah i dont think were gonna agree on this point any time soon. As for the Maximum Carnage arc
That whole story arc was written because J.M. DeMatteis the writer felt that comics were becoming too dark and evil "I'd had my fill of the pyschos and mass murderers running through the pages of half the comic books on the stands, and those were the heroes." He had an agenda to make Spiderman as super squeaky clean as possible to the point of lunacy.
Yeah it's a terrible arc but there's an actual nice nugget of truth in there that could make for a really good story but it was the 90s...not too many really good spider man stories in that era