I'll rule the world

I admit yeah, it could have been handled better

Yeah, true. However, the fact that she still started a cult because as far as the canon has shown she lost ONE childhood frend still rubs me on the other side to be fair. Plus, even after watching the barred wasteland Twilight still needed to talk her down because she was still refusing to hear reason. Sometimes I wonder if Starlight was always a bit mess up in her head. Trust me, I want to think that so I can feel some sympathy for her, at least saying that she was always kinda messed up and never received any psychological help might explain her behavior. Not helped by the fact that unlike Discord and Sunset (althought Discord was being a dick in that regard), she was easily forgiven by everypony despite all the damage she could cause.Speaking of redemption by blasted with rainbows, Discord wasn't reformed by the elements or harmony, he was stoned/unstoned and that was it, he received two therapies for that, the first onein Keep Calm And Flutter On, and then in Twilight's Kingdom. He's still certainly an ass at times but technically speaking he was redeemed by mundane ways. Nightmare Moon according to most people from the cast said that she was product of some external corruption and self-steem issues, and whereas the self-steem could be solved by mundane ways, the elements of harmony were required to clean the dark magic. Sunset is an odd case, and yeah, I wish I could know why was such a jerk in the first movie, as in hindsight is a very abrupt change between movies, which is sad because somehow I love her character (sometimes both Starlight and Sunset are compared, thought I think the reason why I like Sunset than Starlight steems because even if Sunset was arguably meaner, she was individualist and believed in standing out from the group, whereas Starlight hypocrite or not as well intentioned she was, Starlight was more of "everyone should be equal", I must admit I relatate more with "stand from the group" mentalities). Trixie was a braggart, but the only time she was genuinely evil was under the influence of the alicorn amulete, explicit stated to be an insanity trip for the user, the jerkiness however was again changed by mundane ways. Wallflower's stone received the magic blast instead of herself and got redeemed again by mundane ways. Midnight Sparkle was dark magic over a pushover bullied student, so harmony magic pretty much destroyed the dark magic and rescued somebody who was bullied into use dark magic anyway so redemption is kinda unnevitable and obvious. Tempest again was redeemed after somepony lend her a hoof after being betrayed. And finally, Chrysalis, Sombra, the pony of shadows Tirek and the Dazzlings did received magic blasts but rather than redeemed they were just plain defeated and never redeem themselves.Long story short, MLP doesn't really have a great story brainwashing villains into redemption as people think, so Starlight is not unique in that aspect.Funnily enought, I don't mind her screwups post redemption as much as the fact that she seems at times to be shilled too much in some episodes. I agree that still, is not worse than the season 5 last two parter, I was really pissed back then.Overall, I can't say I hate her, but I can't say I like her very much anyway.