>>32293750I guess it's about the way it subverts your expectations. It looks really cool, you encounter its first form early on, you're getting all excited, then it dawns on you.
As for Alakazam, you'd probably see more people complain about it if it wasn't so fucking old. Lots of players probably have a box or two full of the things on one of their old carts.
It's been ages, but I remember back in the day I didn't like the whole trade evo thing much either. Wasn't as bad as not being able to catch Farfetch'd in the wild, though.