>>102893578There was a couple of factors:
1. Quesada had just taken oven as EiC and one of the reasons he got the job, was that X-Men sales were on a downward trend and didn't get a boost at all from the first X-Men movie.
2. The 2001 Quesada relaunch of the X-Books didn't go as well as Quesada wanted. Sales didn't magically go up with Morrison and Casey on the books.
3. The X-Books were a mess when Morrison came onboard. Claremont hated Morrison and vice versa. Meanwhile, you had Joe Casey wanting a literal freakshow version of the X-Men and demanding Jean and Wolverine finally hook up.
So a decision was made that Claremont got to keep Rogue and keep his book divorced from Morrison's book. Morrison got to control the direction of the franchise, and Casey basically got all the leftovers.
This led to a situation where Morrison's book sold moderately well, compared to Xtreme and Uncanny. Because it was where actual major events were happening for the franchise. As such, Quesada called an audible and told Morrison that Marvel couldn't afford to have New X-Men be constantly late/delayed.
And his book had to pick up the slack, sales-wise while they fixed Uncanny and Xtreme. So he got saddled with fill-in artists, several of which (like Phil Jimenez) were picked explicitly because they were big names or in the case of Igor Kordey, picked because they could do multiple issues really fast so Marvel could double ship New X-Men.
