Hickman's run of FF is what should have been the immediate lead in to Secret Wars, you can see the difference after Hickman leaves FF, FF is stuck in limbo for years being sucky FF again.
"oh no! i'm Reed, too smart for my own good, now we have to stop WWiv!"
"oh no! i'm Sue, i'll bake a cake first!"
"oh no! i'm the Thing and i'm ugly, i'm also called THE THING!"
"oh no! i'm Johnny, i'm stupid and i fly, hey ugly the Thing, be my wingman!"
Oh the Future Foundation? lets... nah forget it, we can't create stories around it, lets just lock up these kids in Camp Android or whatever.
Hickman made the FF readable, for the first time in ever, when he left, it was back to 4 dumb idiots.