@CORDZ2000
This is where character motivation gets hazy, because besides siding with the ponies and rejecting
that, we never get her impression of the change we literally had no hint of until that episode. We don’t know what that means to her because it was never explored further. No reason for her to think she couldn’t rule as Changed, but rejected from what amounts to no stated reason. Even saying it’s out of pride is iffy because her characterization becomes so thin, its more like an
easy answer than an obvious one.
And, I deny the last statement purely from the fact that revenge on her hive never crosses her mind. It remains focused on the ponies that turned them, not the still vulnerable hive she was ousted from. Although never stating she had no intention of helping her kind survive should be enough.