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I don't think it feels that way at all, except when things are really poorly written. Just because there's an "infinite" multiverse of different versions of Superman, for example, it's not like they all appear in the book every month, or each have a dramatically different story. Believe it or not, the whole "Multiverse" idea only started because editors needed a way to explain mistakes. Basically, it started when an early Superman artist accidentally drew Lex Luthor bald, when he'd always had red hair. The new artist mixed up Luthor with his assistant, who was bald. When fans asked what had happened, the editors said, "Uh, that was... oh, yeah, all the stories before that issue were, um... a parallel universe! So now, going forward, we're staying in this universe, and if Luthor with hair ever shows up again, uh, then you know you're reading a story from 'Earth-2'!" As years went on it became a convenient writer's trick; literally any mistake could be easily explained away with the old "parallel universe" gimmick. I get it.
The "Multiverse" idea is also essential for trying out new ideas on a book without screwing up the main continuity. For example, we all know how everyone hates Venus, but what if a writer really felt he had a good story to tell with that character? Should he try and squeeze it into the main book, potentially "breaking" continuity? Should he completely abandon a potentially good idea just because it doesn't fit in the "main" universe? OR, could you simply do the story, slap an "ElseWorlds" sticker on the book, say it happened in an alternate universe, and let people judge it on its own merits, knowing it's not hurting the "real" storyline? It's a way for people to tinker with ideas that couldn't, or shouldn't, even be attempted in mainstream continuity.
It's not really hard to wrap one's head around the idea that there's an infinite number or parallel worlds out there. There's always the "Main" continuity, where 99% of stories take place, and then there's the "peripheral" or side-universes. It's always pretty easy to tell which is which. TMNT is basically custom-built for The Multiverse, really, since no two versions of them are very much alike at all. The whole "Earth-1/Earth-2" thing is pretty much the only way to make sense of why sometimes Baxter is white, sometimes he's black, sometimes Shredder is Saki, sometimes he's an Utrom, etc. etc. The Multiverse trick actually makes things a lot simpler, rather than more complicated.
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