>>37469912Japanese kids complained about Mt. Coronet being too difficult to navigate and the Hall of Origin required you to go back through it and use the Azure Flute near the summit, so Game Freak decided it would be too hard for kids to understand how to get Arceus.
>>37470002Except that's not at all what the stakes are in USUM. The dimension-hopping Giovanni just wanted to use Ultra Beasts to do the usual Team Rocket stuff but with stronger Pokemon. It's no different than the usual villainous team nonsense but with a large quantity of moderately powerful Pokemon rather than a single supremely powerful Pokemon.
The stakes have never been raised higher than Cyrus's goal to reset the universe.
