>>35109342This ain't a platformer or a shooter, not everything will nor should be a "challenge".
If everything is so convenient that you never have to think about anything besides "following the mark on your map", then the game becomes bland and boring, and pokemon is going that route with infinite TMs, linear routes, no HMs, etc.
JRPGs are fun because you have a bunch of little shit to do, FFXIII tried to remove that and just push you to your "next challenge" and look at what happened, one of the most hated entries of the series.
I don't hate FFXIII but I don't want to see Pokemon going that route.