>>47200537Sun and Moon should have been the Z version. Kalos didn't need a third version to be great, it just needed the direction it was going in to be a good one.
The only reason people look down on Gen 6 now is because Gen 7 and 8 ended up being even worse. If we still had things like the PSS, Super Training, Hordes, Inverse Battles, Triples/Rotation, the National Dex, the DexNav, roller skates, customizable bikes without the clown suit, dungeons, new mega evolutions, a story that doesn't revolve around following map markers, engaging lore and gameplay, and a good distribution of old and new Pokemon then Gen 6 wouldn't be as vehemently hated by zoomers trying to find a scapegoat for why SM/USUM/SWSH didn't have any of these things.
Face it, you know this to be true.