I'm with you, screw G1 haters, G1 ponies went on cool, entertaining adventures, and had good characters and actual personality traits albeit not being deep. G4 has now turned to shit anyways, it's too modern and such, (and quoting this article on the anime Bleach), yeah, the boring slice of life episodes always follow the same repetitive beats and are seldom eventful, it's like whenever it tries adventure and such it falls flat on its face, newer terrible characters are added to replace old favorites whilst they regress the older ones, the so-called "powerful Princesses" now only show up to be captured and made useless, if anything does happen, it's predictable, and when it's not predictable, it's ridiculous, and G4 came to a point where it should have stopped but it didn't. Then again it wasn't that great in the first place honestly in my opinion, it's overhyped.