>>57206929>game is balanced to prevent you from being overpowered past a certain pointThe old games let you just skip gyms and you've always been able to just grind through anything. Anti-grinding mechanics weren't implemented until Gen V.
>can just skip an area and return fully leveled up and overpowered, trivializing most areasHow do you get "fully leveled and overpowered" if you're not engaging with the content?
If you're just grinding like a retard you have always been able to do that
>can easily catch fully evolved, including third stage and special evo, Pokémon easily and early on, making training pointlessYou are completely talking out your ass holy shit
Scarlet and Violet are the first and only games in the series to enforce obedience on your own Pokémon. Even if you sequence break and catch something in a high level area (stupid and unlikely because overleveled Pokémon get big catch rate penalties) it won't listen to you until you actually get enough badges.
These are also the first games where badge scaling is reasonable and you can't completely trivialize them by trading over Level 50 fully evolved Pokémon halfway through the game.
Raids also scale with your badges, you get 3-Star raids max until you have six badges and you can't get 5-star or better (where the high-level evolved Pokémon start showing up) until the postgame.
