You’re not altogethor wrong, but I would like to interject on behalf of a few characters.

That only proof that she gives a damn about her subjects is a single line in her debut episode, and given that she has repeatedly lied and manipulated to just about everyone around her puts that into question. Otherwise, all we’ve seen of her is that of a ruthless power-hungry sociopath who deliberately kept her subjects from evolving to their true forms just because she didn’t want them to and rejected any possible way for them to live a life where they didn’t have to steal love from others. In fact, her rule only made them starve more than they would without her.

Chrysalis does care about her Hive. In Frenemies, Chrysalis specifically states that she hasn’t felt what it was like having other’s who will be there for you since she lost her Hive. Equating her hive to friendship.

She refuses to change, but that’s because she’s so far up her own ass, not because she doesn’t care about the changelings.

While it’s possible Celestia made Sunset out for that role, nothing in the EG movies ever suggests she knew that was the case. No, what we actually know of her is that she wanted to be an ailicorn princess, in fact, she felt entitled to it, and completely rejected Celestia’s attempts to have her make friends or not be so selfish…and she responded to that by running away to another dimension instead of listening to reason. Sunset wanted power for herself, nothing more and nothing less. She even said so in the ‘My Past is Not Today’ music video.

Oh, Sunset was so wasted by being constrained to just the EG series.

In any case, I feel your view has to be pretty narrow to think that it was just about Sunset being greedy. Whether it was intentional on the writers part or not, Celestia clearly has faults. Luna is proof of that, and Sunset is directly paralleled with Luna in her backstory comic.

First of, they only joked about it in Forgotten Friendship, but let’s face it. Celestia IS a bad teacher. Celestia told her to make friends, just like she told Twilight, but she neglected to ever once explain why or really explain anything at all. Same with Twilight really. Twilight just kind of stumbled into the right thing.

How’s Sunset expected to grow if Celestia doesn’t tell her WHY what she’s doing is wrong and the reasons behind what she needs to do? Sunset believed what she was doing was the best way to get what she wanted and that it would set her free. Says so both at the end of the EG movies and the song you mentioned earlier. I admit that’s vague as hell, but it gives evidence that it probably wasn’t all about being greedy. Sunset changes her tune the moment Twilight proves Friendship is better than what she was doing, which Celestia again, failed to do.

Finally, I think it’s pretty firmly implied Sunset sees Celestia as her mother. As far as we know, Celestia is literally the only guiding figure in her life. Sunset was her student before Twilight, they had a journal that let hem always stay in touch, and when Sunset’s memory is wiped, she calls out for Celestia to help her. Most convincingly, in Wake up Sunset Shimmer, Sunset says, “Princess Celestia, I don’t want to go to magic school” in her sleep. A short line that implies a ton of things. Obviously it’s a slight remix of “mom, I don’t want to go to school” again hinting at the nature of their relationship, but it also confirms that Sunset did live in the castle with Celestia, and Celestia cared for her to the degree of personally waking Sunset from her sleep. like a mother.

So, when Sunset tries to get what she wants with restricted materials, and Celestia catches her, and throws her out of the castle with barley a moment of hesitation and no attempt to again actually EXPLAIN what Sunset’s doing wrong, it’s a lot more understandable, WHY Sunset would go nuts.

Mostly true…though you forgot to mention that Vorak had such a low opinion of his son because Tirek was a power-hungry and overly entitled sociopath, even as a teenager.

Tirek was like that because as his Mother plainly said, Vorak never embraced Tirek for who he was. Tirek had a gift for magic in general, which was rare among their kind, and he was shunned by his father for it.

So, he drove himself to the extremes he did because he wanted to prove himself to his father. Discord plainly states that’s what it’s all about in the finale even.

I don’t want to start another argument.