My Little Pony: A New Generation, my opinion on Sunny becoming an alicorn.

I really really hope that because her alicorn form in glowing and transparent is because it's fake and temporary.

If not then I'm pretty sure it's just writers probably going lazy and choosing a very easy route. They probably didn't want to create a whole arc/seasons of Sunny becoming worthy of becoming an alicorn so they just gave it to her.

When Twilight become it had a meaning, she worked for it.

If her alicorn status will be permanent,I hope she won't become a Queen or princess
That completely wouldn't make sense because she doesn't have any ruling skills on a government level.
Twilight had to be taught by Celestia herself before and after becoming an alicorn just to become a ruler of Equestria.

Yeah if they will start MLP Generation 5 show they better start explaining stuff or people will be furious if they will just try to pretend that G4 didn't happen and at the same time that it did.
If they wanted to create a Generation 5 as a separate thing from G4 they could have just not include G4 in the past, just like other generations did it.

So they better be prepared to explain stuff,like what happened to Legion of Doom,Equestria,Twilight ,etc