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>felt like the entire theme of Sun / Moon was how Alola's traditions were detrimental to its society as a whole
>archaic island challenge was failing the majority of the children leading to shit like Team Skull
>entire town filled with harmless homeless kids and no is doing anything to help them
>if you fail your island challenge you can't even get a job as a garbage man unless your dad is the boss
>then Kukui comes along and wants to establish a league
>we get kids like Hau who want to make things better for everyone, even people who failed their island challenge
>entire set up for USUM to be a BW2-esque sequel showing how Alola has changed for the better
>could have had a cool mixture of progress and tradition, new 8 gyms in Alola but the gym leaders also continue training Totem pokemon to honor the now discontinued island challenge
>all the Team Skull members reformed into happy, adjusted people
>instead we just got Sun / Moon but with some sidequests
