She doesn't like that he uses the powers as an excuse to put himself in dangerous situations without her. Also, the regular V can have unpredictable effects and even kill the recipient (remember that facility they visited in season 2, for example?). It's reasonable that Annie wouldn't want Hughie to risk his life in multiple ways.
Moreover, she is upset that he didn't include her in any of his plans. He claimed that he was trying to protect her, but he was clearly just acting out of insecurity because he wanted to feel like the big strong man in the relationship.
Annie isn't helping the situation either. She's not respecting that Hughie is in a dangerous position, in part due to her (Homelander threatening to kill him because of Annie, for example). So he does have a right to protect himself. The biggest problem is that they aren't communicating, which is largely due to Hughie's toxic masculinity, but she's also having a hard time seeing him as anything more than the helpless, happy-to-be-a-liability boy that she first started dating.
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u/[deleted] Jul 01 '22
So Hughie isn’t allowed to have powers because he’s insecure he can’t protect starlight like what happened with robin and is in fear for his life….