>>35823782I hope so. Say what you want but they shook up the competitive environment in a good way, and disregarding a few specific outliers, the mechanic and most of the implentations were balanced insofar as not being a useless gimmick like LV monsters in Yu-Gi-Oh but also not completely centering the meta around them like Landorus-T in both Smogon Singles AND VGC. You could have a mega on your team if you wanted, and still be competitively viable, but it was by no means required and while you would have to consider them as threats when teambuilding, it's not like they stood out differently from other meta-game threats. Furthermore, they breathed life into pokemon who weren't just dead ends competitively, like steelix and Aerodactyl, they also gave redesigns that switched or rekindled my love for at least a handful of mons, and I'm sure the same is true for most people.
For example, I was always averse to Charizard because he was the gay beer belly normiemon that got all the love from Nintendo while my bro Venusaur got jack shit, but I really do like Charizard X both because he looks like an actually intimidating fire lizard, and because his playstyle suits my own (I love bulky set up sweepers)
