In the 2014 Italian ORAS interview everyone knows and hates, Masuda said that people should get into the postgame if they're looking for a challenge in response to being asked why the games were becoming easier, all the while stating why they didn't implement the Battle Frontier and with all three sets of 3DS Pokemon games having some of the shallowest postgame since Gen III. What gives? The Battle Tree global mission clearly showed that heaps of people care about the postgame.