>>40997044Removal of content alone is bad, yes. Replacement of content is the way things should go, but unfortunately there really isn't anything in S/S that seems like a fair tradeoff for the cut dex. There's nothing so far that makes me go "oh, that's where the dev time went instead".
That being said, games do bad shit all the time. Even my favorite games have moments where I wonder why the fuck they did certain things that seem bad. What really matters is how much the bad shit affects the overall feeling of the game for you personally.
For me, it doesn't affect me at all since I never did anything with transferring. For others, it has a huge affect because they did. I'm buying it, others aren't. That's just the way things go.