I'm honestly fine with this. They couldn't have made it more clear that the real games come out next year, which a lot of people were expecting anyway. They just put out a cheap UE4 game so that there'd at least be something this year. Also we now know that the 2019 games will have following Pokemon and overworld wild encounters, so that's nice
I know it's kinda predictable why people are gonna be upset but this seems like a decent outcome