SugarCat

well i wouldn't want to be in Ponyville after realizing how many times the whole town goes off singing there lol! But my ideal place would be on the outskirts, maybe near Sweet Apple Acres, it would be sweet to live near all those apples

I feel like Equestria Girls was bound to happen at some point in the franchise, and I don't see it as a bad thing. A lot of the gripes I see people have online are that stuff like this is a cash grab or whatever, and even if they are, it's because it works. People love the MLP characters, so make them more relatable as teenagers in high school. but I also think they did it in a more interesting way and expanded on it greatly, like it being a different dimension was a good choice IMO, while also doing creative parallels like Twilight coming from Canterlot in the pony world and Sci-Twi coming from a different school in the human world and both meeting and becoming friends with the same group of ponies/people lol. i also feel like it's a way to have more relaxed and realistic content from these characters (even if magic is still a thing), it's still a bit more grounded because they're having more human experiences