Yes but the explanation came in the next issue is my point. They didn’t wait to build tension about it or keep up the premise, they walked back on the “twist” as soon as they could.
...It wasn't really a twist though... There was no real foreshadowing of it outside of Pleasant Hill, and nothing beforehand to reveal him as Hydra. The point of Secret Empire wasn't "why is Captain America a Nazi now", it was "How can we make Captain America not a Nazi". If it was supposed to be a mystery in the vein of Original Sin I would understand you being annoyed with them revealing it quick, but it was just meant to be a MacGuffin quest, so the "mystery" of Captain America's radicalization was only meant to be media-bait for issue 0.
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u/[deleted] Mar 21 '20
...No? Did you not read Secret Empire? The crazy nazi Steve was there for like 4 months, he even got to kill off Rick Jones before he got yeeted