>>39423185It was lacking in post-content and had a small map, but at least they didn't shove too many cutscenes in it and didn't cut pokedex entries/literal pokemon. It was the very first 3D game that they made for the console and at that time, it was understandable.
Since then, they really haven't done much besides re-using the 3D models and incrementally adding things little by little. It's the Ruby & Sapphire of 3D Pokemon main games compared to last generation according to a "jump". When you look at Sw/Sh, there's hardly that big of a jump compared to GSC to RSE, GBA games to DS games and finally, DS games to 3DS.