>>34977933A current gen Pokemon game being as barebones as that would be mediocre at best. Some story needs to be present just so the player has something to drive them to keep playing.
It seems that you're conflating the mere existence of a story for USUM levels of expository textdump cutscenes.
I think the issue of the series isn't the excess of the story, but how in-your-face it is. I think dotting the region with diaries or something in a similar vein would be a good compromise.
