>>39201057Other than not being so limited, the story itself while being bad wasn't as intrusive compared to SM's bad AND intrusive story. As for regions, Kalos was better than Alola, the Pokemon selection in Kalos was the most diverse and full, and at the very least there was a semblance of dungeons.
Ash went to Alola for a vacation, stayed because of wanting to master Z-moves which coincidentally can't even be used outside of Alola anymore, once he finished the trials he literally didn't know what to do and even then they'd still bring up "the league" once in a blue moon anyway even though it's pretty much more of a "oh crap, we need to do this too" kind of deal.