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Yea. I guess you could call this another unpopular opinion, but I think Fall Weather Friends is just as bad as Non-Compete Clause for the same reasons. They're both episodes where the central conflict is 'Rainbow Dash is a shitty friend and it's also Applejack's fault for some reason'. Applejack denigrates herself and apologizes for the horrible crime of daring to be upset about one of her 'best friends' treating her like shit and retaliating against it, while Rainbow is let completely off the hook and never has to make amends with the ponies she let down or for not having faith in either of her friends. And she didn't even learn anything either, as she would continue to become overly defensive and bitter whenever her ego feels threatened in future episodes.
This is actually a problem I've noticed in a lot of episodes about Applejack and another pony. LBYS kind of has the same problem, though a little less severe. For more or less the whole episode, Rarity is the one constantly instigating fights with her attitude problem, even after she talked about having a truce(which she used as an opportunity to throw shade at Applejack's character), she just immediately turns around and starts ribbing Applejack again right after they agreed to stop. And at the end of it all, Applejack is both the first, and the only one to apologize. And she still doesn't want to help move the tree in Twilight's house until AJ practically begs her to.
I think this stuff might be the primary contributing factors to why people think AJ is dumb. She's actually a lot more reasonable and smart when you just stop blaming her for the stupidity of the others.