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Roger Stern had an incredible run on Avengers. Here is, IMHO, Uncle Rog's crown jewel:
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50 Greatest Avengers Stories, according to the voters at Comic Book Resources. Guess which made #1...
http://goodcomics.comicbookresources.com/2013/06/21/50-greatest-avengers-stories-master-list/
If you haven't checked it out already, you ought to consider reading Kurt Busiek's Avengers run, which was in the '90s. He launched the third volume of Avengers with George Perez, and the run is quite good. It had a great back to basics approach after the title had been in creative doldrums for quite a while. It had gotten so bad that Marvel outsourced the Avengers and Fantastic Four titles to artists who had left Marvel, and their studios took creative control of the books. Avoid Heroes Reborn at all costs. There are three stories on the list you linked from the top 50 from Busiek's run. During that time Busiek, with some help from Roger Stern, wrote Avengers Forever (5th place on the top 50 list), a 12 issue epic series with some fantastic art by Carlos Pacheco. That series stands alone, although it is a time travel story, so the story features, and in some cases cleans up messes from, earlier Avengers stories. Great stuff. Although it references a lot of older stories, I thought the story itself covered everything you need to know to enjoy the story.
One thing that Busiek did really well that few authors achieve is that he made Hank Pym interesting. A pity later authors mostly ignored some of the great character development Busiek established.
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As fascinating as they are--and they are quite engrossing--it's all office politics/sausage being made-type stuff that really does leave a bad feeling afterwards. I suppose every collaborative, creative endeavor will have those unsavory aspects, but for the most part it would seem that the majority of comics creators are survivors who are often tested but who manage to endure the hardships of their trade.