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Hot take: Pokemon is only fun when it's somewhat easy.
Easy gameplay allows me have more freedom in team building and picking pokemon that I genuinely like and want to use. It also lets me be creative with my team composition such as making a monotype team or a team based on a particular theme. This is what fangames fail at. They get this idea that the game needs to be hard in order to be enjoyable, but that only encourages players to use the same boring competitive teams that VGC or Smogon approves of, on top of unfair RNG and limited options. Pokemon is not rage series and shouldn't be treated as such. If I want a monster taming series where the games are hard and there's no personal investment with the monsters involved, I'll go play SMT.