>>31327479Most of that applies to XY/ORAS too and the touch screen UI stuff can all be chalked down to design decisions, a map for one is an easy go-to after many people complained about lack of one in XY and many 3DS games such as Yo-kai Watch or just about any RPG that isn't XY/ORAS using the touch screen for a map, the old battle menu could work on a single screen just as well as most of the touch screen stuff in SM would unaltered
Also GF said back in 2014 they were developing for N3DS, so 3DS SM was clearly in mind already