@Background Pony #3C45
Its a problem with she isn’t allowed to HELP stop threats at all.
Sitting on a throne is one thing but choosing to not fight a threat is really a problem.

By important decisions it seems more like its just Celestia while Luna is unable to oppose any of Celestia’s decisions.

@nightshroud96  
But Luna, being imprisoned on the moon, couldn’t do anything to help Celestia and anyway, when she returned, she always stayed by her side and surely she too did her part when it came to making important decisions, since in part the burden was also hers.

@Background Pony #3C45  
Problem is its still terrible handling of the sisters.  
Its still slacking off from their duty by having others do it for them(and yes, the sisters ARE protectors as shown back then so they are the kind of rulers that confront the threats).  
its a big problem for Luna since she just got back from the moon. Instead of allowing her to try to make up for having Celestia bear with the burden alone and leaving Equestria hanging, she is forced to stay out of it pretty much.  
Luna’s reputation will take it worse than Celestia’s.

The point is that the royal sisters couldn’t intervene even if they could because they wanted the mane 6 to learn to fend for themselves, if they had helped them, they would have ended up doing most of the work and the mane 6 would never become able to rule Equestria in their place.  
Even if things got out of hooves, in the end the missions that the mane 6 went through were a test to see if they were ready to take that responsibility.

Eh…  
Doesn’t really justify the times either royal sister ended up getting defeated/captured or subdued or their magic ends up getting nullified or stolen.

Man, none of you are ever happy

I laughed at RD’s line. Then I laughed even harder at her punchline.

To be fair,Discord “Trains” them better lol.

@Ryodraco
 
Plus, maybe there was a timeline where Celestia personally stopped absolutely everything… but…
 
>>1032531p (merged)  

@DanielTepesKraus  
Except that in a number of those alternate continuities the princesses (or at least Celestia) or others likely did stop some of the threats, they just couldn’t stop the one that ended up winning in each time line. Each time line was also artificial in the sense that it was not supposed to exist, and the results became more random the more damaged the time line became.

 
not to mention, it was a canon plot point in the cutie remark that the princesses actually can’t do even when put on the spot.

Based on a true story.

@Background Pony Number 17  
Yeah, but the season 9 opener strengthened this. That, and no one shrieked at their computer screens in a fit of rage after it premiered.

 
The comics pointed this out five years ago.

@Minus  
Experience is the best teacher, Discord just adds more teasing and “trickster mentor” aspects than Celestia and Luna do.

This doesn’t absolved the princesses of their uselessness. Discord does a better job training the mane6 to be prepared to take over than the princesses ever did.

Yeah, I’m sure that sounded like a great cover story.
 
@Joshua  
I’m not sure you grasp what a punishment is.

Exactly.

I tend to think in practice it was a combination of the princesses needing help at times and at other times allowing the Mane 6 to do everything for the sake of their secret training. Either way, I love that the show adopted this stance.

So, this is how the show punishes the people who hated the princesses and thought they were useless. You reap what you sow, I say. XD