Thanks for your thoughts and sorry for my late reply. Erik's viewpoint makes a lot of sense to me too as a description of how history tends to work. It's hard to think of a good solution.

And yes, Charles is very privileged in many ways (though I think the movie implies a similarity to comics canon in giving him a somewhat neglected/abusive childhood). He's still privileged in many respects and that definitely shows in his somewhat rosy view of the world.