>>48184485People fucking hated Hoenn for a long time until the remake hype overtook the negativity. Hoenn was the first mainline game to remove major beloved features that appeared priorly in Crystal/Gen 2, nevermind the first actual dex cull as not being able to transfer, right after it was advertised as a big deal from gen 1-2 really pissed a lot of people off.
The historical revisionism going on around here and elsewhere really is annoying, especially when I can recall all the past arguments on this shit stretching back decades.