>>45193901It was the first time in 9 years you got the chance to play through the story with the Kanto starters, and was the first time ever where you got a second starter without completing the game first.
Sorry you Alolasomes/Galards can't comprehend the context to understand why it was refreshing when all your gens did was remove the good parts and double down on the most mundane and stale parts of what XY did.