All of this stuff you wrote about are great and I wish they were actually the focus of the movie and not just thrown in so that people could write about how they were in the movie.

What if her powers were more innate and actually tied to her emotions? What if, due to constant conditioning from patriarchal values, her powers are unreliable or difficult to control? What if Yon-Rogg could actually best her in a fight in the beginning because Carol couldn't use her power until the ending when she learns to embrace her femininity / emotional strength and that's what causes her to achieve her final power mohawk? That would have been interesting!

Buuuut instead the source of her powers is a magical blue space explosion and she learns to use her full powers when she remembers that there's a computer chip on the back of her head suppressing her powers but also she uses her powers throughout the movie and is in control of them, in fact she uses them to beat the antagonist in a fight 5 minutes into the movie, again to escape the Skrull ship, again to blast open doors, and then again to beat the antagonist in a fight as a final hurrah, etc. etc.

Compare it to something like Thor Ragnarok where Thor is actually defeated, doubts himself, but then learns to overcome doubt and realize that he doesn't need a magic hammer to be powerful (except in Infinity War when he needs a magic axe-hammer to be powerful... ignore that). Carol is never really defeated in the movie. She's put down, yes, but never defeated which makes her ultimate victory pretty unrewarding. I did like when she blasts Yon-Rogg at the end though, that was funny... but mostly because of how unthreatening Yon-Rogg was. It would have been soooo much better if we didn't see Carol do that in one of the first scenes of the movie.

I disagree with your downvotes because you're presenting a positive interpretation of the movie and feminism, but I really wish the final product actually resembled your write-up more strongly.