>>34473765It's actually ingenious what they've done. Everyone liked the Gen 4 and gen 6 bottom screens, right? Poketch was great, The ability to toggle running shoes was great (no idea why this wasn't kept and assigned to a button, the R button hasn't been used for anything since except Rotom photos). Gen 5's bottom screen sucked but it was a precursor to the PSS and it at least had a persistent clock, which was useful.
So Gen 7 rolls around, they use it for a map. That's fine, except they waste 1/3rd of the screen space on Rotom's kawaii uguu eyes, and it always says some bullshit so you have to validate it before it even shows you the map. Then USUM come around and it's even fucking chattier, and they give us the worst incarnation of PSS powers conceivable. It would've been better had they given us nothing, but oh well. Also keep in mind that unlike the town map, you can't zoom in or out if you want to get another look at the region (The region is totally unimpressive, but that's beside the point)
So the long and short of is, they made the bottom screen so fucking shitty that I'm actually looking forward to it being gone.