It ain't that they're gonna reboot it for me. It's how they had dude go out. They threw as much disrespect on the character as they possibly could. They even released the comic a couple of days before Stan Lee's birthday. This was a calculated cuss towards the entire character.
Killing off Peter and replacing him/have someone take up the mantle like in the ultimates is cool. Miles for all we know is a good kid and is learning the craft etc, but replacing him with one of his archenemies then trying to say Doc Ock "gets it" he understands Spidey is an icon etc is stupid because he spent his natural life trying to kill Spiderman. Doc Ock chose to be a villain from jump he wasn't forced he was an a$$hole and decided to become a villain. That shyt ain't supposed to change because he's in Parker's body. It's dumb writing. I'm cool on that. I'm kinda done with Spiderman now.
AND on the 50th anniversary of Spider-Man's creation.
As cool as I am with the concept of Ock being Spidey, the execution is, like you said, ALSO an example of half-assed writing and a reason why I stopped reading regularly. Even though they used what amounted to a deus ex machina to try to explain it (I don't remember if it was explained in the thread, but before flatlining, Peter used an Octobot to have Ock, in Peter's body, experience his worst and most painful memories, in order to convince him to reform), the problem comes when you realize that Ock really isn't going to change like that.
Don't get me wrong, I was the same as you when OMD happened, but eventually the stories sucked me back into at least keeping up with it. With a concept I can at least find some interest in? I'm not jumping from my apartment to the nearest comic store or anything, but I'll at least follow it to see how its handled.
I ALSO want to see how contrived the retcon is going to be, since Peter is supposed to be, you know, dead and all (He probably transferred his brainwave patterns to an Octobot right before Ock's body died and is just biding his time or some such only semi-possible, if that, technobabble).