Transcript: "Ultimately, there are 10 basic X-men plots.
- Aliens ruin Scott Summers day
- The teenage female audience surrogate (Kitty, Jubilee, Armor, etc) does something cool
- Bigots ruing Scott Summers’ day
- Storm wrestles with her leadership position
- Time travelers ruin Scott Summers’ day
- Everything connects back to Wolverine
- Literal demons rise up from Hell to ruin Scott Summers’ day
- Professor Xavier turns out to have done a bad thing
- The other X-men ruin Scott Summers’ day
- The Phoenix shows up (most likely to ruin Scott Summers’ day)"
I mean in universe Scott was the writer of the X-Men comics which is why he always appears as the leader and also why he deals with the most shit.
He was trying to make himself look cool by appearing as the leader who takes all the shit.