Now that this show is over and almost no one speaks about it anymore without usually to mock it or poke criticism to its very poorly done narrative, I must comment on something that always bothered me.
How come that neither the gems nor Greg thought that Steven having no major education under his belt wouldnt backfire on his life heading forward? Now, a smart writer would assure that Steven's future is guaranteed with him being an ambassador with an alien race but that would require proper world building and supporters and detractors from both sides making peace difficult...aka, Steven Universe as a setting would need to expand and grow up and it clearly wasnt interested in doing that (reasons could range because CN probably was telling them to wrap things up, the writers arent particularly good, that its a kid show with rock lesbians or all of the above). Besides, we would have to confront subjects like xenophobia and I reaaaaaally doubt these writers were capable of tackling this subject without it all just being cheap analogies for IRL racism because thats as far as they can go.
Either way, they went for a cheap convenient conclusion for the giant space nazi women and now we are left without much of a plot left so they thought they were being clever by adknowledging that Steven's future is academically fucked because all his caretakers were incompetent fuckwits with no real excuse. The Gems have been around for centuries, they should have known better, Greg is his fucking father, he should have known better. The world is changing and Steven wasnt taught how to deal with that and all of that was just really making him lose it. We really had a villain arc ready to go but, again, it would require talent and guts for these writers and they would never go that far so the whole thing just kind of ends in a shrug and a whimper, making you wonder why "Future" was even made.
You know its bad when not even its hardcore fans were able to stick by and defend this show for very long after it was clear that it was over and there wouldnt be more content to "conveniently" make everything retrospectively better. They just kind of gave up and moved on to something else, like a fart in the wind.
But then you realize this show never was meant to be anything just a leftists power fantasy so you see that creative juice in your mind is better suited for something else.
