But one of my greatest gripes was how the show handled alicorn Twilight.
Here you clearly have an alicorn princess who'd otherwise look and feel out of place in their normal settings surrounded by ordinary ponies and all.
But the show treats like everypony pretending they don't feel like Princess Twilight constantly strolling alongside them is out of place. It felt rather forced and unnatural.
Most other shows remedy the "princess among crowd" syndrome by putting the princesses in question under aliases in casual clothing when they're interacting with ordinary folks and characters in a casual setting. They could have made Twilight switch between an alicorn(official royal duties and plot relevent events) and unicorn(casual slice of life) depending on what the situation called for, instead of having her constantly being Twilicorn princess mode. That compromise could have satisfied those who prefer unicorn Twi and maintained the plot progression at the same time.