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I'm just gonna copy paste my comment on LFHTH here as it does apply though I will revise it a little

I think we might get a glimpse into what Steven's life would be like if he had been raised on Homeworld. It's a common storytelling trope meant to either add a sense of tragedy to a relationship between protagonist and antagonist and/or make you feel for the hero when the protagonist leaves or it's to serve as an incentive to escape and fix it. It usually goes one of four ways with variations:

Like in Tales of Symphonia and Eragon, the main character doesn't learn of their mentor's true relation to them until a long time after they betray the group/die. The revelation adds a sense of tragedy because, without knowing it, they briefly had the parent who they thought had died back in their life and they can't ever go back. Although in the former if you decide to end a certain teammate's life...

Like in Avatar the Last Airbender, the main character is reunited with their family, the antagonist, after years away and comes back after either completing some task or their family just insists on bringing them home after finding them. Everything's pretty great, there's some unerving stuff but life is grand. However, the protagonist leaves because they know that their family's ways are wrong.

The alternative to option two is that the protagonist comes home and everything's a creepy cult right off the bat. My least favorite option because it doesn't really add an emotional weight to the departure nor does it tell the protagonist anything they didn't already know. I've only seen Adventure Time do this right and Finn wasn't returning home to a main antagonist. Although I suppose SU could do this correctly to.

A vision, dream, or time travel. The second most likely move for the show is that Steven has a Pink Diamond vision. I don't mind this option too much because while it doesn't happen, if the vision or dream is accurate to the antagonists enough, it can be its own tearjerker.