>>56460222It all hinges on if you buy in on the mega gimmick and plan on using PSS a lot.
If you think they're cool, then its functional as any other pokemon game.
If you don't care for those two features, then it's left completely barren for content.
None of the gimmick era games lean as hard into their gimmick as XY did with megas, so none of them are as screwed when you don't wish to engage with it.