>>33433158>steady improvement, gets to the finals, small accomplishment in battle frontier too>time confirmed for standing still after he met ho-oh so he has literally infinite time to improve and it doesn't matter, if it's really his passion why would he quitit's great gary found a thing he really loves but there's literally nothing wrong with not giving up something you like if time and money isn't an issue
also there's a difference between never even making it past the worst ash ever did and losing in the semifinals to two legendary pokemon