It's true; as much as we keep getting hit with "Steven is insecure because he's not Rose Quartz and gems keep expecting him to be", that's a nice mirror to Steven keeping getting hit with it, as gem after gem treats him like his mother when he can't be her, as much as this is clearly unprecedented; he can only be himself.

What we've seen of Smokey Quartz's personality and style does seem to combine the best aspects of Steven's and Amethyst's personality and fighting style; unpredictability, fun, improvisation and creativity. We saw pretty much all of this in the fight against Jasper, of course, but it was frustrating that Sardonyx, despite saying straight out that every fusion has a unique new ability or weapon, ignores SQ's claim that the yoyos were her (interesting, there; Stevannie is very clearly non-binary, but SQ seems more of a "her" as presented; never mind that gems are pretty much always non-binary and use "her" by default and because of their default presentation) big thing and instead proceeded to test her for every other known fusion's unique ability (and as the combination of Pearl's analytical mind and Amethyst's futurevision, that seems remarkably short sighted).