Well of course you do Weekly, its something that amps one of your favourite verses and another person you can hide behind. Give your own points rather than acting as some 'yeah that' support.
1) No, Blue and Yellow have been implied to be equal, a lot more than Pink compared to the others. Their place on the flag, their comparable number of colonies, their same size, their comparable armies and power. Yellow and Blue in subtext are clearly equal, while Pink is lackluster to the both of em. We really cant compare when the show is clearly building up a hierarchy amongst the diamonds aswell. White is cleaely going to be the strongest, judged by her size and status, Yellow and Blue equal, and Pink, the new one and smaller, which means defective, as Peridot stated in the statement you use, most likely being weaker. Pink may be comparable, but its clearly implied shes different to the other diamonds, and therefore we shouldnt jump the gun on saying her power.
And thats not the point. How on earth would there be a Jasper if all gems were made and created equally. Simple, because the resources and amount of time spemt for their fpr ation affects their power directly. A gem isnt completely useless due to its size, ifits still just as effective a warrior. I have no problem with with comparing quartzes except Jasper, but again, Jasper was the perfect quartz how? Because her resources and formation was SUPERIOR to the others, which were defective. Amethysts were meant to all be Jasper, and saying amethyst is comparable to a normal quartz, means youre also comparing her to Jasper, who was used as a base for the kindergarten prime. Peridot only got a glimpse of a room-building level feat, she cant determine whether shes comparable to the mountain level at least Quartzes. Amethyst was depressed BECAUSE she wasnt as powerful as she was supposed tp be, that was her whole arc. Defective gema are those that are weaker in their purpose, fusion skanks, or merely just deformed to the point its unusable, like Rutile.
2) as ive shown, gems that get less resources, shown by multiple factors including shorter height, are usually defective, and therefore weaker. Seriously, there wouldn't be defective gems if they ACHIEVED AT THE SAME LEVEL as they were expected. Pink of course lacks experiemce, but the show has obviously given the possibility that Pink ISNT as strong as her sisters, and to say that shes comparable when we only just saw her, based solely on the fact theyre the same type of gems, which can still have power differences between them, is jumping the gun WAY too far. Honestly, what is the problem with merely waiting for her tp show more concrete probability.
3) Yeah, secondary canon isnt always a sure way to say they tie in with original series. The white light hasnt made an appearence in the show, nor has anyone stated its weaker than diamonds. Diamonds have just shown hax as superiority, and therefore their physical ability cant really be judged, though I dont doubt they're stronger. Its sketchy honestly to try and tie in a game exclusive character into comparisons on the actual characters. All they really need is a mention to the events, but when a non planned, secondary canon thing is used to scale a large portion of the characters, then it really is controversial. Perhaps not to Weekly, but consideration of the debating society as a whole, ive seen SU be a quite controversial verse. This only ties in with that, but this is something for a content revision thread.
Diamonds have only shown hax to be their superiority, Yellow can literally destabilise light. Meanwhile Lapis over here casually lifts the whole planets ocean while weakened, and moves at MFTL+ even when gems cant apparently go past LS. Just saying, no doubt the diamonds are strong physically, but their superiority seems to be based solely on their verse based hax. Therefore, its hard to make the statement now that diamonds can be compared to Lapis' power that can terraform planets, when that fear could just be the bigger army, the vast array of superior tech and the hax they provide, rather than their AP. Alexandrite as a whole wasnt fighting Malachite using ALL of Lapis' true power, especially when Jasper was in control, so its sketchy to compare them to that and so forth. Just saying, diamonds might not be so massively strong they withstand High 6-A with a pinky. Possibly gonna make a CRT, but knowing the SU part of this wiki, it wont go anywhere. But for now, saying PD is stronger than Lapis is just, frankly, unbelievable. Its never been shown or implied in a sense that Pink Diamond is equally as feared or scary.