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>Went from a continuation to a reboot and took out things like Day-Night cycles and transferring past Pokemon.>Gen 2's soundtrack is considered one of the best while the gba's soundfont for RSE was pretty poor>Gen 2's aesthetics are always praised while gen 3 sprites and overworld looked either wonky or just plain inferior.>Pokemon designs are still pretty mixed to this day>People are still mixed about Hoenn's water routes to this daySuch a disconnect that the majority of the original fanbase left and came back later in gen 4. 5-6 was big as well with it's simplification. If anything 7 just felt like a continuation with a couple things fixed and a couple things taken out.
Don't necessarily hate gen 3 but I understand the shit it gets. Going from gen 2 to gen 3 was pretty rough.