>>33199498100% this. ONLY the story was better in S/M.
Removing battle modes, removing more accurate control schemes, removing any semblance of decent leveling, removing the bike (which was a way to go fast without using both hands constantly to hatch Eggs), removing even the option to use HMs as field moves rather than leaving them as an option...
All outweight the very minor improvements made to game play otherwise.
And that's without even getting into the fact that they've ditched so many features from past games to begin with before even reaching X/Y.
And so far seem to continue to do so. Again not keeping contest despite OR/AS having them again and possibly having ditched Mega Evolution (if US/UM don't have any when they should - Z moves have had their time in the sun - it's pretty safe to consider it ditched).
