>>32152137I can't really say I see the same side as XY played into with the Pelago.
The problems I had with XY and ORAS was that they gave you VERY powerful gift Pokemon VERY early in the game in tandem with the consistently low levels and the over-beneficial exp gaining formula that they used in gen 6, compared to the one they brought back in 7. They also deliberately gave the player easy, early access to mega evolution, a far more useful feature than the single use Z-moves.
Pelago is just a very nice little side feature that helps out more after the game and requires time invested to actually benefit the player during a singleplayer playthrough and thus doesn't really impact it as much as XYORAS's features did.
