>>33427197If you only collect, train, trade but don't battle, then you are also tunnel visioning, except on the other side. Game Freak makes the game as a single entity where everything is connected design-wise, so basically the intent of the game is to train, trade, and battle with the things you train and trade, that's the basic structure.
The community has decided that the "competitive" and what they call "in-game" are two separate entities entirely, basically two different games, and thus what you do in one doesn't affect the other, but that is simply not how the games were designed. If you only care about battles, or if you only care about collecting, then hacking won't affect you in both cases, it's when you try to take the entire game as a cohesive whole that you start to truly realize the vast abyss that it creates between both sides of the game, to the point it becomes basically impossible to fuse them back together.
Hacking, to those who don't hack but want to enjoy all aspects of the game is a massive barrier of entry at best and a denial of the very essence of Pokemon at worst, but to those who hack and don't mind getting straight to battles it truly is a justifiable convenience. This conflict will never end, not even if hacking ends for good, or if GF gives a literal team builder competitive mode, because it's not simply hacking vs legit, it's two different perspectives of the entire concept of the series.
Some players enjoy the monster collecting, training and battling game as it is, others don't and will use any tools to get to the parts of the game they enjoy, royally pissing each other off.
