>>44716076Ash traveling through a region with his friends, winning badges, meeting the pokemon/character of the day, and beating Team Rocket was already an old and worn formula since Jotho, the only innovation for a while was to change his travel companions and give a subplot with contests-tripokalon-whatever.
The innovation is appreciated, unfortunately the execution has not been the best, but I prefer that they continue experimenting than returning to the old and boring formula.
