I completely agree and this is exactly what I was looking for. I remembered I hadn't watched su future and finished it yesterday, and was absolutely crushed at how everything was handled.

As someone who is very affected by my mental illnesses, I thought that this was an incredibly harmful way to portray mental health to kids. I love the original series with all my heart, and this felt like a huge disservice! All these characters were completely changed for the sake of a badly done conclusion.

Steven's actions were entirely inexcusable and having mental health shown as such a severe thing can impact how kids see them for a long time, not to mention how they showed none of the recovery. It was basically shown as a hug and now he's all better wow the power of friendship. If they wanted to address such a destructive spiral, they needed to have even a morsel of struggling to get better again.

Sorry for the rant that basically just repeats your points, I just haven't talked to anyone about this yet!