So… All the magic went away when the mane 6 were still around? That’s pretty fucking depressing ngl. No more flying for RD, animal talking for Flutters, spellcasting for Twi, Starlight, and Trixie, no more Apples-ing for AJ. Depressing af.
It was a bad decision, but a necessary one. Good things, unfortunately, do not last forever. Not even in a world full of colorful ponies that talk, sing and do magical things.
Overall not the best idea for explaining the crystals, but I’ll take it as the least awful possible band-aid to the lore clusterfuck that’s been G5’s sheer barrel of bad ideas.
So basically from what I’m seeing here, the shows happy ending wasn’t a happy ending at all. Things started falling apart not only during Twilight’s reign but around the same time as “Last Problem”, and despite Ending of the End all the ponies started becoming racist yet again.