>>18325196It's all about the self-satisfaction. You think you are a better person for producing and using a pokemon that's "legitimate" over a "cheated" one, even if those pokemon are functionally identical and will likely both pass a legitimacy test at a tournament or whatever.
This is where the steroid analogy usually falls apart, because while steroids actually give an unfair advantage to athletes, genning and breeding simply produce the same result in different amounts of time.
So is there a reason to keep IVs around?