Yeah, I suspect you're right. A lot of writers probably think too highly of themselves to just take the easy road and give the audience what they probably want to see.

Oh, and speaking of exposition - this had one of the best moments of horrible, clumsy exposition I've ever seen:

---another big spoiler coming up---





Stryker - "I'll shoot him with this adamantium bullet."
Lab assistant - "That won't kill him, he'll just regenerate."
Stryker - "No, but it will destroy, HIS MEMORIES!"

I'm not kidding...