>there are still people who deny that OR/AS are a fuckload easier than the originals

The Exp. Share makes it so you don't even have to use more than one pokemon to level up your entire team, and you get it for free before the first gym. You can literally play the whole game only using one pokemon and you will still end up with a team that can easily wreck the elite four, even if you skip as many trainers as you can.

>"B-but Anon, it's optional, you can turn it off!"

That doesn't change the fact that it's there and it wasn't in the originals.

>there are trainers who heal your whole team on almost every route, sometimes your rival even does it
>your rival can magically teleport you halfway across the region at certain points
>they added extra dialogue to make sure you always know exactly where to go to progress the story, which discourages non-linear exploration, which is a shame because there is a good deal of that in Hoenn
>various other forms of hand-holding

I'm starting to think the people who defend this are Unovabortions who have never played a challenging video game in their life.