I think that's a fair to accurate read on them. Personally, when I was sorta reading them I just thought it was "edgy" without much to say. I didn't have any of the literature analysis skills I have now, but it just didn't feel good for me. I was in high school when these titles dropped and personally anything that felt "edgy" felt like the like stuff the kids who would bully me would read. I didn't like reading stuff I thought the people who made high school a not fun time would read (doubtful they'd read for fun but whatever such is the teenaged mind). That's part of the reason I move to stuff like Spawn (which felt more "X-treme™©®" than edgy) and Hellboy (which is just a damn fine book) and Invincible (which felt more my speed at the time).

Which I understand to be a totally emotional response on my part to a damn comic book line, but I remember staying away from all the 2000's era stuff for a while. It's weird I have a sort anti-nostalgia for comics of that era. I read a lot of older Marvel/DC comics during that time in my life.

Sorry didn't mean to make this into a lore dump, just felt like I should expand upon why I hated the Ultimate universe. It did give us Miles though.