Ah yeah I totally saw people flip flopping constantly on Pudding too.
I totally didn't do the same! Oda was totally fucking with us using her lmao. Didn't help with her personality issues either ofc!
On a side note that's somewhat related, there are some characters like Pudding (without saying too much) in Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines and they are written very well imo especially with how you deal with them ultimately. Pudding really reminded me of them. I'm gonna post videos about them but it will be major spoilers for them, although its still early in the game too:
Major spoilers for VTMB:
This game is still absolutely awesome to this day and holds up very well, especially with mods ideally too (the unofficial patch is pretty much mandatory too):
The sisters Therese and Jeanette have a Pudding-like situation going on, kinda like if Pudding's personalities were seperated into "two different people":
Jeanette also inspired the Batman Arkham games' version of Harley Quinn apparently and funnily enough, Jeanette was inspired by Harley Quinn originally apparently? Therese seems like Harley pre-Joker too, when she was still "sane" and Jeanette is from a vampire clan associated with insanity/hysteria and "mental/psychic powers" and such too. Deception, mind control, brainwashing, driven to insanity, horrific nightmare inducing powers and so on.
Fanastic art about Jeanette and Therese in this regard but a major spoiler again: