>>44834978Game balance considerations require pokemon with great attacking stats give up defense and speed to make up for it.
The EV cap exacerbates the problem by incentivizing investment in as close to two stats as you can manage, and it's unlikely that those two stats will be Atk and SpA.
The more pokemon exist, the more min-maxed stat spreads you'll see as newer mons have to be differentiated from their predecessors.
The SFMA problem is a mix of poor design choices and inevitable ones.
