EVEN THOUGH I KINda hoped it wouldnt go down this way it makes a lot of sense and /how/ it went down makes even more sense??
like this explains why steven has visions of the diamonds and dreams of them, ik ive seen ppl saying that some of the powers seem A Bit OP for a quartz, and alsooo why pearl doesn't/cant bring herself to shapeshift, why she got the most nervous of everyone when shattering pink diamond was brought up and why it seemed she was hiding something