There's an interesting bit of 'revisionist' history thing going with Loki. Mostly, it's that a lot of readers started sympathizing more and more with Loki, given his backstory ( rejected by his own people and dad, taken in and basically covered in beige-face to fit in by his adopted family etc.)
Then when it's revealed that all the gods don't have a choice in their nature, that Loki across multiple lifetimes has no choicebut to be the 'bad guy', because that is just how his story is written/retold time and time again.
So Loki to modern readers, became the guy who cannot help be who his is no matter how much he tries to fight fate. Who can never be 'better', because the story both in-universe and on a meta-level, will never ever let him become a better person.
That is, until very recent storylines, where Loki through a very convoluted way, finally managed to free himself from his 'trickster god of mischief and evil' persona. He has now refashioned himself into the God of Stories, which is basically another way of being the God of Lies. Like a loophole, basically.
So far, he's finally found his better nature, and even saved Asgard by weaving a story to keep all the Norse gods safe when the universe got burned out at the end of the Incursion event and just before Doom remade Battleworld.
I'm not sure what he's been up to though. The new Loki generally tries to not play anymore politics with the Asgardians ( although he actually played around with mortalpolitics in the Vote Loki mini) , and he's on much better terms with Thor.
