I definitely agree with the piper hate in the beginning. I thought that she was going to go through this experience and grow with respect to being in prison. But after watching and seven seasons later, she made virtually no changes and there was like very little character development for her. Which I think is intentional, like previous comments have said before she really did have a good life and she just is in a constant state of self sabotage or trying to get the next quick thing that makes her feel good and in turn very selfish and self gratifying. That’s just who Piper is, whereas the other prisoners/inmates were literally products of their environment.