We came from excellent season 7 that in my opinion resurrected the series, had an incredible nice movie, and now this .... I said it before and will do it again, Hasbro's writers should REALLY stop looking for ways to make their job easier ( come with plots and stories to tell ), and start thinking how to make their job BETTER ( come up with better stories and plots ), first we had the map as a plot creator so the writers could come with easy stories, as I've said, it wasn't good, but wasn't bad either, some plots were actually good.
Now, we went down into an absurd school that actually ignores all previous lore, having a school takes time, the mane six are adults, they had their lives, how in heaven do they get enough time to run a school and still keep their busy lives going ? Instead of making an immersive world that lives and surrounds us with good stories, they make a plain world that tells plain and singular stories. Instead of having actual live characters, we have dolls that adapt to the story, instead of the other way around, Oh Applejack is the principal worker in her farm and does a lot of the work to keep the place running ? She's a teacher now, bad luck for the rest of her family, oh, did Rarity has to work for 3 Boutiques ? upsi doo, she's a teacher now, so her dreams can go to hell. The characters are no real anymore, they've been reduced to plot convergences rather than actual characters.
I had my hopes up with season 7 and the movie, I thought the series was getting better. I fear now that I was wrong, VERY wrong.