>>58308783>sense of progressionyou grow stronger regardless of enemy level. you can safely advance into higher level areas (remember, only the gyms and rival are "scaled")
>removing challengenothing is stopping you from challenging gyms with lower levelled pokemon anyways. remember, the gyms arent scaled to you, but rather to the number of badges you have
>actual thought to progresslevel scaling has no effect on that
>homogenizing the gamehow is allowing players to challenge the gyms in any order without making them face terribly underlevelled opponents homogenizing? if anything, its heterogenizing as it allows for more varied playthroughs depending on gym order
>implementation cancelling...how does that happen? just because a gym is different strengths depending on badge level doesnt cancel out any mechanics, unless you consider being extremely overlevelled a mechanic