>>58562870XY largely sucking was because Ohmori took over halfway through development, all the ambitious ideas from the early XY betas died with Masuda leaving. Ohmori himself as we came to find out via the Teraleak admitted he couldn't be arsed to design gym leaders or fights for XY and the pedo faggot didn't add Megas to a single gym leader team in the game and somehow still bitched that Megas not being used in important trainer teams was a problem despite it being his very own ineptitude that made it so, the faggot also fucked up gyms so badly in XY that he wanted to try and get rid of gyms by gen 7, which he also failed due to how much the trials sucked, which convinced him he fucked up yet again and had to try and go out with gym presentation in gen 8, gens 6 through 9 sucking so much dick was entirely Ohmori's fault outside of BDSP and LGPE, which were the last projects Masuda was involved with.
We had several generations of Gamefreak running around like idiots without any idea of what the fuck they were doing while being led by a complete fucking retard in Ohmori who didn't understand jack fucking shit and who wanted to shove gimmicks out the door instead of focusing on the one people (contrarians not withstanding) actually liked in Megas. He kept pussifying and simplifying outlined concepts because everything has to be family dramas and sob stories with this faggot, there's truly no one evil in Ohmori's games because hmmmm......T-THERE JUST ISN'T OKAY?!
I am not defending Masuda with this shit, his games had a large issue of repetition and people always preferred the third versions because those put actual polish over the rushed jobs Masuda did, Masuda also got Pedohmori out of prison to be his bitch, so he's inherently responsible for shit going sideways even after he left, Masuda is at least the reason we even had Pokemon past gen 1, so for that I commend him at least.