>>46525767The games have always been piss easy
The games have been getting worse with each generation for more than a decade (it's up to you whether it started with gen 3 or gen 5)
The graphics have always been sub-par for their time
Competitive sucks: your choices are a fanfic meta that is biased towards defensive play or the official meta which is doubles and unbalanced
The average fan is 10 years old or younger, the majority of people who played gens 1-4 as children dropped the series long ago