All 1-7 gens are good games, you can't convince me otherwise. Every region had optional areas to explore, and while the story has NEVER been good, it really doesn't matter, plot in videogames is not necessary at all. However, swsh and let's go are not bad "pokemon games", they're bad games in general. Let's go is another fucking kanto, that doesn't even have sevii, and swsh is a rpg with not a single postgame or optional area to explore, not a dungeon, not even a city. How can people defend a game which only optional feature is to "catch a few, 300+ of which you already got in previous entries", shitty graphics and technical department, 1990s online password system and an empty, barren and small region?