Fell asleep after the first one.

Look, Exp. Share is broken. For starters, it's the same in gen 6-7, so all the "gen 7 was close" bs needs to stop. Gen 7 was worse, not better, but gen 7 as a whole was a hallway simulator and everything in the region is slow af, so just ignore gen 7 for a sec. Exp. Share was perfectly valid as a hold item, that worked, that was not broken. In gen 6, it became a key item, and is on by default, gen 7 too. No one gives a shit about anything that was said last time, because you all missed the point. It's clearly broken, and it's far from the only thing broken in Pokemon these days. Z moves, Megas, the story, the difficulty, all of it is broken. Stop saying what amounts to, "Oh well, just don't use it", because we need to all acknowledge that Pokemon is broken, instead of ignoring it and deflecting. It has been for two generations now, and if Sword and Shield continue this trend, it'll be three.