>>44753035>It's the same trainer in every story until gen 6.That's merely the issue of GF not adding character customization until that point, either due to inability or their own incompetence. But player characters never have lines or much personality beyond the name you give them that a person playing the game can't just self-insert over them.
The original vision of Pokemon was about the player's unique adventure in the Pokemon world, you are meant to insert yourself and play the role of a Pokemon Trainer aiming for the seat of Champion, with your own unique team of Pokemon with their own pet/nicknames. But an issue was that all player characters had set designs and if you played with other people, you'd see those, which diluted the idea.
Character customization is in direct alignment with the vision of a unique experience and adventure with your own Pokemon.
>There are no character builds.Various pokemon fill out classic RPG elements in the form of their base-stat builds and movesets, like Clerics, Tanks, and such.
Other elements like natures, EVs, IVs give Pokemon different options in builds, even if there's usually only a specific good build, but min-maxing is pretty much in all RPGs.
