>>43032957>What's the point of a second region if it's a curb stomp?The whole games are easy excluding a few battles. The difficulty doesn't really change when you arrive to Kanto. And even if it did, battles are not everything so start looking at things from more than one perspective.
>Not a lot to do in Kanto, and post game wise there's not a whole lot to do past take 2 hours to beat the last 8 gyms. Firstly, this is a stupid hyperbole. Secondly, there is shitton of a activities after Hall of Fame. You can start building your own Safari Zone. Gym leaders become available in the overworld so you can add them to your Pokegear and rematch them. Pokeathlon offers new items so you have more reasons to play it. Battle Frontier opens up and this alone can add hundreds of hours of content for some people. All of this on top of a new region which takes few hours if you actually bother to explore it instead of rushing through gym battles.
I can agree Platinum has more logical progression (but also much more linear), however don't give me this bullshit about little postgame.