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Nah, more like revisionist history that GameFreak themselves is trying to push.
XY, as it stands, are peak 3D. Are they barebones, incomplete, and niche? Absolutely. But it's the fact that GameFreak themselves are trying to shove it down the garbage can that really highlights how much better we had things then.
XY are the last time things were decent enough to be seemingly fine. They're the beginning of the end but at the very least they introduced plenty of good things like the PSS, Dexnav, Super Training, Interesting lore, and the one battle mechanic that's actually more than just a gimmick.
You're absolutely free to dislike it as long as you don't try and claim things are somehow better in Gen 7 or 8 when they actively tore down everything the series was building up to at that point. It's been 7 years and we still haven't gotten online as seamless as XY. SM only started the current map design philosophy that aims to make everything as linear and constrained as possible.
It's a sad fact, but XY may very well be the last games to have legitimate exploration and dungeons. I think that's worth defending if we're going to give examples of what 3D Pokemon should build off of instead of continue to deteriorate as it is now.
