[...it bothers him a little to hear Jasper put down like that. She's volatile and dangerous, but she also has feelings Ford understands. Ford wasn't that bright, either, for summoning something he had explicitly been told not to summon. But he's not going to choose now to stan for her, not going to derail the conversation.]

I doubt that's the case. She broke with an authoritarian regime that creates life-forms with a specific purpose in mind. Their existence is highly specialized, tightly controlled, and they reproduce by draining other planets of their resources, leading to the extinction of the native life. The Crystal Gems were a rebellion against the Diamonds, and from what Rose has told me, they all had their own reasons for joining up. I don't think it was coercion.