About Pink, abuse, lies, you know? all the happy stuff
You guys know the deal, we get more information, we discover another bad thing she did while she was younger, the internet acts like she came back from the dead to beat a child with a crowbar.
First things first, yes, she did hurt Volleyball, but let's analyze the situation with a magical word called _Alterity_. Put yourself in her place. You're young, have a lot of expectations upon you that you're not reaching, have abusive paternal figures, you're royality, and on top of that: you're an super powerful being, which power and size surpass everyone around you except for you paternal figures. Not hurting someone by accident, is like walking on grass and try not to step on ants, possible, but it's such an immense effort that probably no one ever asked her to even try, all gems were seem as subjects by the diamonds, and as it was meant to happen, she hurt someone.
Volleyball said she happened to be too close when Pink screamed, you all have seem how her powers work through Steven. Now try to imagine that times 10. Close might mean, on the same room, or on the hall 3 wall across. It was an accident, it was, stepping on your dog legs when it's walking to close, hitting your brother during a game, stepping on ant.
But different from what the others diamonds would do, Pink did felt guilty, and sorry, we are not sure it was her decision to give Volleyball away to White, she probably had no choice at all. But we know that, when Pearl arrived, Pink was still feeling so guilty, so scared to hurt someone again, that she supressed her emotions and her powers to a point where Pearl didn't even knew she could destroy things.
And now, the second part people seem to don't understand, the lies.
Did you ever did something so bad, so horrible, that hurts you just to think about? Did you ever hurt someone you deeply care? You ever felt like the worst person in the world? If you did, how many people did you tell that about? How many times were you strong enough to push those words out of your mouth and tell what did? Can you force your heart to deal with it? Wouldn't you rather just try to be better, bury everything deep inside you where the only person it can hurt is you?
She wanted to be better, she tried so desperately to be better, she gave up on everything she had to save a mud ball floating in space. She awakened hundreds of gems to fight for their freedom. To dismantle the system that made her powerful.
And do you think she was ever satisfied with her efforts? That she ever thought of her self as a good person? Not until the last day of her. She spent her entire existence as Rose Quartz thinking she was a bad person. And then she met Greg, and she felt sure she was a terrible person. She never thought she grew.
I think I took everything out of my heart for now. Being good is an effort, it's easier for some, harder for others, and you can never really tell how much someone is trying something.