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Open world pokemon is a cancerous idea but I also hate the linearity the series has taken. The best solution would be to go back to the semi-linear structure the series had in the first four gens. What this would entail is that the game is mostly linear at the beginning (with some side paths here and there) until a certain where almost the entire region is opened up to you and you could tackle certain gyms in any order. This is what Gen 1 and 2 did while Gen 3 and 4 had loops and backtracking which made the region feel alive and gave the illusion of an open world.
