I’m leaning slightly towards the BP’s opinion. Having Twilight be an alicorn does irreversibly change the dynamic of the show. Not to the point I can’t enjoy it, but it’s just missing that innocent charm it had with Twilight being the main (and relatable) protagonist.
 
@Beau Skunky  

 
Oh my god, did you just hear that?
 
There, that! He did it again!
 
Dude, you’re breathing. I’m so triggered.

@Background Pony #DF74  
She’s still Twilight, just with new responsibilities.

@Background Pony #DF74  
To be fair, she’s more of a figurehead, then an actual “leader,” and actually some (like Glimmer) did notice her being an alicorn. (And Ponyville is pretty much used to her wings by now.)

@Background Pony #DF74  
Because it would slow down episodes something fierce so unless it’s a plot point, ponies get over it supernaturally quick.

@Claw  
This isn’t about the drama, this is about the change itself.
 
I liked Twilight as she was before MMC, because when she and her friends weren’t saving the day from some great evil, she was just living a normal life as a normal everyday librarian. She was joining her friends on various slice of life adventures and, at the first glance, she didn’t stand out from the crowd in any way.
 
But now she has those glaringly obvious wings, has the supposed role of a leader of a nation, has this freaking castle, and no amount of them trying to make her still act as she did before can possibly fix it. (Not only that, but it also creates lots of fridge logic: why isn’t anybody ever surprised whenever they see a freaking alicorn pass by?)

@Meanlucario  
No kidding, I’m apparently good at offending people, and I don’t know why…  
Recently, I jokingly called Nintendo-haters “commies,” in an off-handed not to be taken serious silly way, and somebody really spazzes out on me about that, and insists I’m the commie.
 
I bet I could offend somebody just by breathing.

@Beau Skunky  
Really!? Well, people do love being offended.
 
@Claw  
Don’t be like that. It changed too much for his/her taste, so don’t be a dick about them having a different tolerance than you.

@Meanlucario  
I thought it was pretty funny all the anti-brony Tumblr SJW MLP fans thought that was a shot against them.

@Background Pony #DF74  
Then honestly, I have no respect for you if some puny alicorn drama can make you stop enjoying the show that you used to love so much.

@Background Pony #DF74  
You’re missing some great things, including a crazy woman that’s obsess with equality.

@Background Pony #DF74  
Nightmare Moon actually does come back later in the series (in a flashback, and also in an alternative timeline where she wins) and does get to do a li’l more,
 
It wasn’t so much the “cheese,” but it was before I got to understand the show, so it just felt like a Barbie Adventure video my niece watches at first. It also didn’t really show off the characters’ personalities well at first.

@Beau Skunky  
Which is funny, because the pilot, as cheesy as it was, was the reason I decided to check the show out. I guess the awesome appearance of Nightmare Moon helped quite a lot.
 
 
_{(Though I lament that she didn’t do more with her powers than teasing the Main 6.)}

I honestly didn’t have anything against SAYS or “Mare Do-Well” personally. I disliked “Scare Master,” & “Pony Point of View” more. Episodes that nobody else has any issue with ironically.
 
And honestly I think people have too much rose-colored nostalgia over Season 1. It was a good start for the series, but it too had flaws, some cookue-cutter episodes, animation errors, barely any continuity, (like ignoring Luna & Zecora’s existence) status-quo, occasional flanderization, and such.  
When I first saw the first two episodes of the entire series, I didn’t quite “get it,” at first or understood the appeal of the show. It wasn’t until I saw the episodes after I started to “get it,” and become a fan. The pilot wasn’t bad, it just didn’t connect with me at first.

@Claw  
Then answer Spike At Your Service, please.
 
Anyway, personally I think that the only season (from the ones I watched) that was consistently good was Season 1. Seasons 2 and 3 had me going “meh” or just being unimpressed many times, and SAYS had me absolutely fuming with anger. Even so, a good portion of the episodes from these seasons are ones I’m perfectly fine with accepting as canon (with some tweaks here and there).
 
Then the Twilicorn fiasco happened, and eventually Eight Deadly Words have settled in for me and I eventually stopped watching the show. Now I’m seeing Twi, her castle, those new characters who look like OCs, and I just can’t bring myself to care even if I wanted to.

Not sure if joke or serious but, I just hate hipsters whining “this show sucks now, old episodes was better”.  
Look, every episode have its good and bad sides but there is no bad episode in whole MLP so far.

@Background Pony #A6F8  
What are you talking about? During the Season 3 year, this very site had almost nothing, but complaining about it. (Especially, the Twilicorn, and EqG movie controversies.) Heck, some users wouldn’t even allow some of us to give “Equestria Girls” the benefit of the doubt. (I actually caught crap for that here to the point I almost left Derpi.)
 
Heck, half the people here only like the earlier episodes, and many here tell me they don’t even watch the show anymore. So “everyone” is a very bad choice of words on your part. We’re not all just one opinion here.
 
Even I’ll admit I don’t love everything about the show. Heck I didn’t like the episode “P.P.O.V. Pony Point of View.” (As it kinda Flanderized my 3 fav’ ponies in the series, and made them seem rather petty.)

None of them have been awful, but there have been great, good, and “that’ll do I guess” episodes in all 6 seasons. Mostly good to great.

So did Bon use her eldritch abomination powers to teleport Lyra into a shallow grave?

@Meanlucario  
Same to you. But everyone nowadays drools over the crap of later seasons without any sense

How did this topic of season one start?

Season one was the most consistently good season. But there’s episodes in later seasons just as good.

@Beau Skunky  
I know, it’s just that nostalgia can blind you if you let it.

@Meanlucario  
Old & new all have their flaws, and positives.

@FlonnesIkramant  
Everyone has their taste. Just be careful you don’t become blind to their flaws.

@Meanlucario  
Ok, fair enough. I was just saying that I enjoyed the old ones a lot.