>>28585610That's the point. Season one made a regular point of addressing how Ash was a hotheaded kid who never stopped to think. Do you think XY Ash would have got into a fight with a Mankey because it stole his hat? In fact, we KNOW he wouldn't because he didn't launch into a rage when Aipom stole his hat.
Would XY Ash shit and cry and whinge and ignore his friends when he lost at the league? No, he wouldn't and didn't. Would XY Ash have made fun of girls for wearing smelly perfume? Most likely he and his friends would have spent a day manufacturing Pokémon perfume and had a ton of fun.
Season one Ash was, above all, a ten year old child. He was routinely shown as early as Path to the Pokémon League that being cocky and overconfident and full of self-importance was not going to get him anywhere. This was proven at the Pokémon League because he, frankly, wasn't a good enough Trainer- his final lesson was how to handle defeat with maturity like Ritchie.
Surely you spotted all that? There's no way I'm reading that deeply into a children's cartoon, it always seemed pretty obvious to me. Even between Kanto and Orange Islands, Ash is a much different person and Trainer.
