>>39576543Part of the difficulty is supposed to come from the fact that when people play the game blind, they way it's supposed to be, they don't have complete information on all the mechanics, each player has to figure them out by themselves. When people first played it, they had no idea what all the type matchups were, which pokemon had the best BST, which ones had good move sets, which ones evolved, etc, so they were forced to experiment and discover all of those for themselves. As such, the game's difficulty has to be calibrated so as to be beatable by a wide array of different team combinations/levels. If they created a challenge that was too hard and required very specific strategies in order to be overcome, that would force the player to restrict their pokemon choices, which would reduce the fun of being able to customize your own team.
People who play the game in modern times with full access to game guides and knowledge of all the game's tricks and exploits have no right to complain about the game's supposed lack of difficulty.
