Sadly, I'm almost in total agreement. Goblin Nation, Learning to Crawl, the opening six issues, Spider-Verse...duds, all of them. And the sad thing, Slott used to be REALLY GOOD at these things. Five-issue mini-series mining continuity? Spider-Man/Human Torch, great story, Learning to Crawl, came and went nobody cared. Giant six-issue epics with dozens of characters and huge stakes? Spider-Island, one of the all-time great Spider-Man stories, juggles half a dozen sub-plots and gives everybody a great ending(Kaine redeemed, Eddie Brock redeemed, Venom did his thing, Peter saved the day with his quick thinking and intellect and showed why he's special instead of people just saying he's special in Spider-verse, etc). Spider-Verse? Like the bigger, badder, dumber sequel, the Blackest Night to SI's Sinestro Corps War. And he's been great at smaller, street level stories too. Look at "Mysteriso", "Brand New Day", "Flying Blind", "Return of the Spider-Slayer" "Nobody Dies", "Flying Blind", "No Turning Back".
I think Slott has done all his great Spider-Man stories now. He's at the point where he seems almost bored with Peter, so he has to have his mind taken over by supervillians or get sucked into a giant, mystical, multiverse spanning epic with hundreds of characters and big noisy, splashy set pieces. He's completely forgotten the relatable everyman street level hook that are the backbone of all of ASM's great runs. Lee/Ditko, Lee/Romita, Stern/Romita, DeFalco/Frenz. The man's lost the plot, and because sales are higher than they've been in 10 years, nobody can tell him no. Steve Wacker probably told him no lots of time, he's gone for Nick Lowe, who's every interview makes it sound like he just nods his head to everything Slott says. Maybe its cuz he's split up writing duties with Silver Surfer(which, despite its cosmic whimsy, still has a great character dynamic grounding it) and all the minis, IDK. But he's running on fumes now. He's like Mark Waid on Flash post-Return of Barry Allen. Sometimes you gotta know when to step aside and let Geoff Johns do his own great run, ya feel me?
Either Slott needs to go, or we need an alternate Peter Parker book. One that can go an entire year without another giant, world/universe spanning mega event. One where Peter Parker maybe has to clean his suit and he has to go the washeteria with a webbed up mask, or his arm breaks and he's gotta lie about it to his co-workers, or maybe he's gotta stop a bus full of kids careening off the road and then make it back in time for Aunt May's birthday.
Something nigga, shit
