Fluttershy isn’t my favorite character (although she was second way back in Season 1) but I still like her a lot
As the very dark and very amazing Song of Ice and Fire taught me, the only time we can be brave is when we are afraid. This reaffirms my belief that Fluttershy is one of the bravest characters in the show. She has to fight a crapton of issues in order to do much of anything, and I’m frankly impressed with everything that she’s done.
Some have criticized her for not making much progress as a character. In my opinion, this is far from the case. It reminds me of the show Monk. In the first episode the guy was a nervous wreck with a million phobias and a lot of baggage. And in the last episode? The guy was a nervous wreck with a million phobias and slightly less emotional baggage. Some things, you don’t ever get over. However he, much like Flutters, would overcome his problems when the chips were down. Case in point, in the pilot the most germophobic man in the world dove into a sewer to help save his assistant’s life. Doesn’t mean that he would willingly shake hands with people from then on. Just because you overcome your problems to do something important doesn’t mean that they’re gone.
In any case, take the episode Keep Calm and Flutter On. It takes massive guts to let Discord live with you and to try to change him. This is the most powerful being in the world, who has broken your mind and turned the world into his toy. Guts. Furthermore, when the time came she finally had the courage to say that she’d had enough of his garbage. I can’t picture Season 1 Fluttershy doing any of that. This is one reason that I think some underrate the progress she’s made.
In a nutshell, she’s a great and interesting character and pretty inspirational too.
And yes, she's cute