>>49507248I think you just hit the nail, they should have limited themselves to Galar and introduced and developed the new pokemon and characters through this journey, maybe 60 episodes would be enough, concluding with a traditional league, just to drop the plot twist of an invite to a world tournament.
So the second part would only be a large-scale tournament, without the need to develop new characters, just some brief reintroductions for the most important ones.