>>21605679>>21605619The core of the games is leveling up your pokemon as you go through regions. The game in this was longer because of the additional region. Beating the additional gyms isn't really post game. If The game had poor post game it wasn't because it didn't have anything like the battle frontier. Which none of the games had when it came out. It also didn't have contests, but neither did older games. It lacked a lot because it was an older games. It lacks almost as much as red and blue do. That was because of when it was released though.
And really the core of all games can be considered, and beaten with high level pokemon incredible easily. If you just see beating the main games as a chore then well I guess you must get annoyed with every game. And yeah it sucks there isn't additional content, but gamefreak hadn't though of all that yet. The additional region thing was really amazing back in the day. And it added a lot to the game.