After 20 years of ripping on the same structure and formula and Gamefreak desperatly trying to make the games feel fresh with flashy gimmicks that they just remove later anyway and the games getting more and more streamlined, why the fuck can't they just make the games so that the players can craft their own journeys

If you just want to beat the 8 gyms and go straight to league to become the champion, you can

If you want to explore the regions characters, culture, history, legends, mythos and uncover it's secret, you can

The games now are so fucking closed of of from you going of the beaten path that the gameboy games had more freedom. I have quit the series long ago but if they really wanted to win back some trust and good will from people than give their players more freedom and stop breathing down their neck with tutorials, linear hallways, long cutscenes and let the players do whatever the fuck they want. They don't spend 60 dollars on a game just to be told what not to do