>>120934555Marvel is already setting up the Multiversity canon. This way, they can have things both ways.
Show that Fox's X-Men are out there, but they're still free to do their own thing.
Most of the famous X-Men stories have been adapted already, so MCU needs to do something different, like having a Harry Potter style series, where the X-Men are teachers, but newer, less famous mutants are the center-focus.
Or, when the MCU actually gets a few critical and financial bombs, they've always got the trump card of Hugh Jackman, as Old Man Logan, ready to wake up in the MCU and cause some $$$.