>>56111427A big waste in PJ was not adapting the 3 rivals of Galar as important secondary characters, Marnie as a rival for PWC against Ash, Hop as Goh's rival in the Mew project, at the end of the games Hop wants to become a Professor like Gary, and finally Bede as Chloe's rival competing to be the successor to Opal's gym, probably the old woman would see potential in Chloe to be a Fairy trainer.
Obviously in the case of Hop and Bede they should use the characters after their original arc to excuse why they do not seek to compete in PWC, something similar to using Cheren from BW2.