Your ultimate goal is for MS to make as little impact as possible on your life. While you should focus on it in an adaptive way, through the above mechanisms, MS should not take over your life. You should strive to keep your limitations to a minimum, to get out of the house, to focus on other fulfilling parts of life. The disease tends to go into remission or stabilize without treatment and to relapse without warning. New areas of demyelination appear with every exacerbation.
Repair is fairly effective at early stages but is less so as the disease progresses.
If so, you may be drawing wrong conclusions. Or you may be specially attuned to items in the news. A lot of this information is outdated or false. The truth is we can't predict how serious the disease will be in an individual early on. Patients and families find this very frustrating.