Steven goes to homeworld to prevent everyone from being kidnapped

Steven's portrayed as being in the wrong solely for taking a semi-logical option.
Incorrect. He's portrayed as being in the wrong because the writers suck and needed a brief bit of drama. Just finished watching Kevin Party and it's resolved so quickly. It's retarded. Connie's reason for being mad was so poorly executed. Like, she's angrier than his own dad and the gems. Fucking stupid as hell. the writers need that teen romance drama though right? Fuck

Steven is at fault because Connie and the Gems wouldn't have prefered Steven to trade his life for theirs, no matter the context. there's even an episode about how sacrifice is stupid because Pearl didn't value her wellbeing in spite of Rose's protests. and Steven's decision wasn't logical, it was literally made in the heat of the moment and he felt guilty for unawarely naming the people who got captured.

you can keep agreeing that Connie gave him too much shit for his suicidal choice but that doesn't automatically make Steven right. it just means that you don't put equal value over life, yours or others.

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I can sorta understand her frustration, but the shit that pisses me off the most is that she takes Lion and his mom's sword with her when she leaves.

Big agree.

The show feels like it has so much potential, but is drops the ball with the most boring of shit results. It reminds me of adventure time where it keeps hyping up big events, but they always resolve in the most unsatisfactory rushed status quo shit.

I think it has a lot to do with Connie's unresolved arc of living out her Young Adult Novel fantasies through her interactions with Steven and the Gems. It clearly colors a lot of her actions and she outright stated she didn't like being left out, but the crew either doesn't want to portray her too negatively, or have her be too closely tied to Steven so all that build up just exists in a vacuum.

Again, what's the alternative? What could he have done that would spare their feelings and get Aquamarine to stand down without putting himself in danger? I'm not even saying Steven wasn't at fault, but he certainly wasn't wrong to do what he did. Contrary to the show's edict, sometimes sacrifices are entirely necessary, and the show's even accidentally proved this numerous times. It may not be the answer that makes everyone feel good, but it's the truth.

>it just means that you don't put equal value over life, yours or others.
That isn't fair, Aquamarine won there wasn't anything anyone can do they could've easily killed a townie or at the very least the humans were all going to be kidnapped and with them losing the Roaming Eye earlier that season... there's no getting them back. It wasn't like Pearl uselessly jumping into harm's way.

I don't even think exploring Connie's hurt feelings was a bad idea, but it shouldn't have been used as an excuse to give a mini timeskip so Lars can become a badass pirate guy. To a lot of people it felt like the show was prioritizing Connie's feelings over Lars' safety. And there was a lot of angles they should have explored. Not just bringing up what else could they have done in that situation? but also Steven feelings, how he admitted he feels responsible for Rose's crimes. Connie doesn't even comfort him at all about how he watched his friend die or any of the guilt pumping through his veins it was all about Connie, they even go so far as to make Steven *smug* about his sacrifice to validate her feelings further just was not a good watch.

Some of y'all are treating this like it was a grievous irreconcilable falling out between the two and not just an ugly argument that both parties regretted and mended after a matter of days.

It still wasn't handled the best, though.

Connie is mad because you can't justify a bad decision with the fact that you randomly stumbled into a lucky break that mitigated how stupid a move it was.

Yeah, the argument that Steven's decision was the only logical one kinda flies out the window when you factor in how he only managed to both survive and get back from the Homeworld (a place so far away that getting there at all was considered impossible for the protagonist) through what can charitably be described as a huge string of complete dumb luck where anything going wrong would've meant certain death. He was basically committing suicide then trying to treat it as the only correct course of action he could've taken.

That's a product of being a TV show in cable.
Compare the Pilot look to the current show.