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Not a single Pokemon game that allows you to fight gyms and sequential trainers outside of a set order has appropriate scaling alongside it, which as been known as one of the key detriments to Johto's balance, if not the biggest factor, on top of making Paldea's open world practically worthless after even a single glance.
If they're not gonna bother accounting for that in any of the games since '96, then what's the point? It might as well be linear if they won't balance the games around that possibility, because the effect is the same even if retards keep falling for the illusion seemingly on purpose.
