Even Moron "Daring Don't"

The whole episode makes no sense.

When Twilight had the ring why didn't she teleport far away, why did she only teleport five feet? And she didn't just teleport five feet, she teleported five feet to directly in front of the unguarded exit door. And she didn't just teleport five feet to directly in front of the unguarded exit door, she teleported five feet to directly in front of the unguarded exit door and then DID NOT GO THROUGH IT.

And there was no ceiling in the room with all the rings and FOUR ponies who could fly and none of them were bad guys. Why didn't Fluttershy or Twilight or Dash and her pallet swap fly the rings out of the temple?

And why is it that the one ring everypony keeps tossing around like it's weightless but all the others on the alter weigh a ton each?

And if Daring Do just destroyed the ring at the end once the temple fell apart, why the hell didn't she just destroy it in the very beginning instead of go through all that convoluted nonsense about hiding it in her cottage where everyone would go to look for it first? If she destroyed it at the end why didn't she let it stay in the fire to melt? Nopony else was going to get it, she got it out herself with her whip.

"I had to find a way to get into the fortress."

No, Daring Do, you didn't. You could have destroyed the ring you had and then what's his name could NEVER have completed his plan of unleashing 800 years of heat on that stupid valley nopony else cares about.

What the hell was the point of this whole episode? There were over 9,000(!) super easy solutions to end the story at any moment, making all that crap they went through unnecessary, but they did it anyway because "waiting until the last second to stop the end of the world is that much more exciting!" or something.