>>35188587I'm not arguing that SOS does it better, I'm just saying the end function is the same, you get rewarded with a better Pokemon the deeper you go into the chain. Obviously Dexnav is the better option, but it would be redundant to have both in the same game, which might be the reason why Gamefreak chose to abandon it when they decided, in certain patches of grass, to keep the 'you can see a wild Pokemon running around in the overworld.'
Then again, GF did give us Super Training in addition to Horde battles. Either way I have little faith we'll ever see Dexnav feature again, although I would like to