Thought too hard about Time Turner/Doctor Whooves and Crescent Moon and how they pretty much look identical save for a few features (wings and cutie mark). Decided to headcanon them as twin brothers!
Okay so last night I downloaded Smurfs Village after years and its still just as good. And its so much better than MLP.
Smurfs Village; its not throwing ads at you every other loading screen. There are ads but they're optional to watch whether for smurfberries or minigame XP. Mini games do not require currency of any kind to play but there is a cooldown. Playable offline and does not lag if offline. No FOMO so far. The only downside is you do need to be mindful of any crops you have planted, if you leave them for too long they wilt, I don't know how long though.
MLP: ads, ads and more ads. Sometimes it gives you ads just switching game locations. The only minigame that is playable without in game currency and without ads is the equestria girls minigame. Every other game the only way to play them is with ads unless you want to pay over 10k in bits. The ads sometimes don't even load so you have to close the game and go back in. You can play the game offline but it takes forever to load and it lags like crazy which was not an issue 3 years ago. FOMO like crazy.
If it wasn't for the ads and the crazy amount of ingame currency required for mini games and the FOMO MLP wouldn't be too bad but as it stands Smurfs is the superior game especially if you want a game you can play offline.