>>31669675Personally, I don't think they really did enough with the Ride Pager to warrant having it (other than just to remove hms).
I mean, now you have every hm at disposal, but at most you'll occasionally need to bust out tauros to break a rock. The level design just doesn't require it.
I honestly prefer large areas completely locked behind HM requirements that warrants backtracking and a specialized team than what SM did.