This is retardedly late to give out Sinistea but the sidequest is nice enough I'm not too bothered by the thematically fitting reward. They could easily fix this by having Sinistea come holding some power item like a Life Orb in a future version or something.
>>56214111Desolation is a game that wants you to engage with the mystery of its plot, not give the bare minimum scraps to be like
>TRICKED YOU CHUDDYlater. You're going to be getting a lot of information rapid-fire you need to sort through both context and the validity of said information to work out what's going on. It's more of a mystery game than a conventional pokemon game all things considered.