>>30998709>Team Skull Grunt is just some loser girl who couldn't face her failures and ran off to live in an abandoned city with a bunch of other losers led by two bigger losers>never actually did much bad beyond a single kidnapping, and Team Skull was generally so harmless no one ever took them seriously>is now putting her life together with new opportunities>Aether Foundation Employee couldn't handle the pressure of their work and resorted to interdimensional jellyfish drugs and went crazy>helped freeze a bunch of Pokemon for some even druggier, even crazier bitch's popsicle collection, helped torture a small animal until it blew open a hole in time and space so they could score more jellyfish drugs, accidentally unleashing a bunch of rampaging monsters into the world>is now in rehab trying to fix her fuck upsTeam Skull Grunt appeals to people the same way Tomoko does: patheticness and opportunities to self insert as someone they'd find acceptable with their low standards or as the power fantasy of fixing their lives.
It also matters that Team Skull is all around more characterized and present throughout the game. Team Aether is deliberately squeaky clean until the base invasion and that's their only real spot light. There's more narratively to latch onto, more of a character to work with.
But yes, Aether Foundation Employee doesn't get enough attention. 
