>>36448737It didn't feel like a real place in the game world. For whatever reason, all the NPCs there only had like tutorial-tier dialogue or felt like irl players going about the frontier and I actually predicted something like GTS before gen 4 simply because of how disconnected the area felt from the rest of Hoenn.
They also put no effort into the island itself. Until ORAS, this was one of the few islands you could actually visit (aside from event ones) despite there being a plethora of them and just look at it, It's like babie's first rom hack.