Can't wish for true love

They mutually liked each other before he found the lamp. The prince wish was just to get around bureaucracy, laws, and red tape, which incidentally enough is personified by Jafar, whom set him upon his destiny in the first place..

In the scene where Al wishes to be a Prince the Genie asks him what he wants and he says "there's this girl" to which Genie reminds him he can't kill anybody. So Al starts gushing about how beautiful she is and how in love with her he is, concluding with

but she's the princess...to even have a chance I'd have to be a prince

hey, can you make me a prince?

His wish was to give him the means to just be able to meet her on even terms, not to make her fall in love. That was all up to him.

Aladdin wishes to be a prince

Genie gets him a disguise and throws him a parade instead

This always bothered me. Genie still owes him a wish since he very clearly never granted his first one. He even says at the end "use your last wish and you can be a prince again". Again? You never made him one to begin with. If you did he would still be one now.

wish for the power to grant my own wishes with no stipulations

but you'll be sealed in a lamp

I wished for the genie's power, not to BE a genie.

you can't have a genie's power without being one

I forget where I heard this, but genies were basically superman, not magic gods.
You wish for gold? He goes and robs the sultan's treasury. You wish for a marble palace? He gathers marble and builds a palace (because he can't create material out of nothing). You wish to be strong? He probably exercises your muscles at night or something.
So that's why Genie wishes tended to go wrong; the sultan would wonder wtf happened to his gold and find out you're suddenly swimming in the stuff, ditto the owner of the marble quarry.

Doesn't have much to do with the movie, but I found it interesting.

Djinns are powerful evil spirits in Arab folklore, basically demons. "Genie" is just a diminutive to refer to a friendly or otherwise subordinated/enslaved Djinn. Djinns do have sorcery in a lot of myths, so I'm not aware of this limitation you're referring to. Also since its just mythology there aren't any strict rules for what they can and can't do. If a myth calls for a Djinn to do something especially magical or the author just wants to raise the stakes they can say they are an Ifrit, which are the most powerful Djinns. That trope comes up several times in the Arabian Nights.

One is rape, the other is her making a choice. Durrrrrrr.

Aladdin is NOT beating the grooming allegations

The Genie lied about the rules.
His powers have limitations, but there's nothing you can't actually wish to him, the movie confirms it
As for limitations: he can indeed resurrect people, but the result isn't pretty, as confirmed by the Genie. He also can't grant omnipotence, as the powers that he initially gave to Jaffar were limited by his human body.
As for restrictions: the Genie can't actually refuse to grant a wish. He's bound by contract by his magical shackles, that's why he has to grant Jaffar's wishes even if he doesn't want to.
So I can conclude that if you insisted, then the Genie would have to oblige and mind control someone into loving you.

It's not mind control if she falls for a flash ruse. He's just being a wingman.

the Genie can't actually refuse to grant a wish. He's bound by contract by his magical shackles, that's why he has to grant Jafar's wishes even if he doesn't want to.

This was true except in the case making Jasmine love him, which implies that while he can but wont bring back the dead, possibly because he can't bring them back quite the same as they were before, forcibly changing the nature of someone's heart seems to be something genuinely outside of his abilities.

Well the whole fall in love with you angle is already covered. Just be an epic bro.

The sequel movie mad a recurring point that while you can't outright KILL someone, "You'd be surprised what you can live through." Though further clarification in regards to whether or not the rule pertains to the cessation of life on the spot as an absolute will or does it also preclude creating a sequence of events that lead the death of the person in question.

Given his stance of it "Not being a pretty sight and not like doing it" this might ultimately be more of a strong suggestion as the wishER doesn't fully comprehend what this actually entails.

If you wish right you shouldn't need more than three to create a situation in which you have the means to achieve any additional desires on your own.

It's a plot conceit involving fucking magic, it doesn't need to 'make sense' in the same way regular plot mechanisms work.
That's like asking why Cinderella's enchantment only lasts until midnight: You're essentially getting something for nothing, why the fuck are you complaining?

He's making the faggot master work for it duh.

an adult... "grooming" another adult

Because the former leads to implied if not rape.

didn't watch Aladdin Prince of Thieves

the plot is about how Aladdin's 1st wish made him the prince of thieves, which had the inadvertent effect of making his father the King of thieves, which was not a great things

Because it's all up to his "game", specially in the case of Jasmine who was used to dump rich boys. Making him prince only breaks the societal barrier of entry if you will.

Obligatory post about how princesses weren't married off for fun but rather to secure stability and relationships with other nations and that Agribah, even as a lush desert oasis, would be dependent on outside support in various ways and that Jasmine marrying a street rat, at best, locked them out of any potential trade needed for survival and out worst would create potential enemies who might covet their lush oasis. But the spoiled heiress who lived in constant opulence got her "Disney princess MORE."

nobody cares about ancient rome sperg

Love potion; Place said person in a deadly situation; Time travel; This

Basically demons

They're more like desert spirits carried over from polytheistic Arabia into islam.
Islam simply retooled them into basically a 'third race made by god" with some of them (Ifrit) being used to fulfill the role of demons in the christian based parts of the religion (since Jesus is considered a prophet) and also to retcon the idea that angels could turn against god (Mohammad said angels basically don't have free will because their omnibenevolent)

Most Djinn aren't evil, in fact I think according to muslims there are more djinn muslims proportionally than human muslims meaning the djinn would over all be at better moral tier than humanity

People like you are why so many genies engage in malicious compliance.

A more interesting question is, why was the genie imprisoned in the first place?

why is a slave imprisoned

Genie is unable to affect free will

Do we know how old was Jasmine? Given the head/body ratio it's likely she was just a teenager.

Because one is altering a person's mind and the other is creating a perception that person believes. It'd be like wishing for a nice car to get a girl that likes them.

Write down everything you want on a peice of paper (have a lawyer go over it to prevent monkey's paw shenanigans)

Use one wish for the genie to grant them all at once so you still have 2 left

GG

Genies are demons and incapable of love so they don't understand it.