Honest question here: Are Nintendo and their first party devs bad at making games/apps? Despite their products being fun, they tend to be very poorly made. I never thought much about it until Pokemon Bank, previously chalking it up to weird decisions by senior leadership, but now I'm starting to think that maybe... Maybe they're just bad at it?

With Bank, transferring your Pokemon from previous gens is a ridiculous, counter-intuitive, and drawn out process that makes no sense. You put in a gen 4/5 game, start up Transporter, transfer box 1, put in a gen 6 game, start up Bank, move the transferred Pokemon into another box, switch back to 4/5, start the game up and move more Pokemon into box 1, start up Transporter, transfer box 1, put in a gen 6 game, etc,etc etc. If you're transferring a full Pokedex, that's 21 cycles of this shit, which takes almost 2 hours. Why the hell can't you just transfer them all in one swoop?

Because the developers didn't know how. They couldn't figure it out... They didn't think this was a good idea for customers, it's just that it was the easiest way from the development side... This sheds a lot of light on other Nintendo downsides. Shitty, archaic online system? Underpowered consoles? It's not that the people in charge were out of touch or didn't know what was expected of them, it's that the teams below them didn't have the knowledge to do any better...