>>57782334There are an vocal groups of people who only & only cares about visuals, animation quality, waifu , aura farming and action scene. They are the reason many garbage anime becomes popular and they are the one who complains about SM series simply because of its visual while behave XY&Z to be groundbreaking despite its poor writing.
If SM series maintained similar visuals and animation as XY series with Mallow being aura farming Ash's love interest than they would have referred SM series as the best Pokémon anime series.