>>30162895true but we're seeing a problem in this gen that both ends are kind getting the shit end.
The people who want more story and a better journey are annoyed the story revolves around a waifu bait and they only exist to enable her, while everything become more and more tedious to get/train until post game. with post game beign basically worthless to them beside grinding.
and the people who don't want the story, are getting stuck in longer unskippable more elaborate cutscenes, longer more annoying gaps between when they can pick the starter for ideal nature//gender, and more and more phoned in post game (EV training isn't post game, forcing it to be harder to do until then doesn't change this fact.) while the online si getting more roundabout, more complicated in needless ways, and more grindy in bad ways.
the are problems iteration fixes, but never will eb as long as GF keeps thinking throwing everything out each gen will work.