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A number of reasons. She wanted to move on to other projects (such as the now-cancelled Wander Over Yonder on Disney XD and the dead-in-the-water Medusa film at Sony Animation). Also, she felt she did not have much creative control because of Hasbro.

Did the show suffer? Maybe a little by having a truncated third season with a rushed season finale as well as a somewhat tepid attempt at a feature film to turn the ponies into human teenagers. But it recovered during season four!