I don't know what the Bass option is, but I'd be very displeased. The beauty of Ultimates 2 is that nothing we've seen is absolutely implausible, and the stuff that skirts that line - the mass of Anti-Ultimate footsoldiers and powered suits, and Loki - serve as demonstrations of what their characters are saying.
"The US has gotten too cocky!"
How cocky, we readers ask.
"... oh, poop. Cocky enough to miss a massive multinational coalition of the willing to fly through giant brains. "
We saw the seeds being planted in the Ultimates Annual with Mr. Nix and in Nick Fury's conversation with the Ambassador/General Vik.
Loki, on the other hand... doesn't seem to be much more powerful than Professor X or the Scarlet Witch, and hasn't done anything that's technologically impossible.
Plus, with Operation Green Man splitting Fury's focus, and the robotic build-up alluded to in the Defenders scene...
Likewise, the beauty of the Marvel Universe pre-HoM was that we didn't feel the need to examine the circumstances of the Universe as a whole; we went with characters. Thanks to HoM, there's a precedent set for any hack who wants to make something ONLY A DREAM WOO WOO; *or* to make Everything Ever A Part Of A Grand Plan, both of which are too uncomfortable meta- for me.
Long post/story short:
Ultimates 2 works only if everyone is acting on their own and rationally (to themselves). House of M-ing it removes every single bit of social commentary and responsibility from every single issue, and fundamentally shifts the focus of the Ultimate Universe from SHIELD and the dangers of the super-soldier serum to OMG MUTANTS.
So no, not mad.
Very sad.