Killing off the continuity was a huge mistake. While the anime was never great, you could not deny it had its charm and somehow its following who got completely alienated by the soft reboot BW had and every season since that have.
Even XY hasn't almost any connection with previous seasons.
Seeing Twitch watches pokemon these days reminded me how gen 1-4 were superior to post-bw sagas.
No continuity its what killed the anime for me, despite the fact I kept watching it now and then 'till BW, even when I had, by far, grown older than the intended audience age range.