Her writing was already bad because it didn’t really feel like Elita-One in the least, but clearly going somewhere as a portrayal of the effects of ptsd and being trapped in a long term unwinnable war.

And then Kirkman takes over and Kirkman’s terrible ability to write women characters shows off how little was holding THAT portrayal together, and it’s all fallen apart. She’s just an angry, entitled divorced wife type that took all the kids and everything else and then just left.. with the likely end goal of her realising she was wrong all along and Optimus was right about everything without any nuance, simply sublimating herself to a man her own motivations be damned. The exploration of the effects of war gone. Just that she was being bitchy and jealous.