>>42810824they're fun enough, though for most of the part they're easy enough until like around the end of main story, and that's if you don't try to cheese it.
with cheese, the only truly difficult stuff are the dungeons that reset your power level
also, for most pokemon evolution does nothing (does it get a new type? new moves? maybe a better ability? no? then it's completely useless, cause stat-wise it's just +5 to everything)