How did they fuck up so hard on this?

The whole Rotom inside of a pokedex thing for one seems odd and pointless to me, you can't even use it in battle. We could have easily just had some AI like Dexter talk to us throughout instead of enslaving a (very annoying) pokemon.

But honestly the bigger problem is how much room its fucking face takes up, they could have easily fit more features onto the screen, even the X menu buttons, while retaining the map if they didn't need those big fucking eyes and ugly boarder .

Please tell me I'm not the only one that thinks this is a massive downgrade from previous games, there's no intuitiveness at all