The fuck happened there? I don't care about the dexcut, I don't care about the ugly trees and I don't care about the forced EXP share. But even regarding past all this shit this game has no (NO) sidecontent to speak of. Seriously, think about it. What is there to do besides progressing through the main story? Filling up the fucking currydex? Hunting Gigantamaxed mons that have an abysmal catchrate and an even lower spawnrate? That's it, the battle tower is probably the worst battle facility Pokemon ever had too and apart from that there is no postgame.
On top of having no side-content this game has no optional areas either. Every Pokemon game before had some stuff you could explore on your own without the game forcing you. Just to cite a few Emerald has the abandonned ship, Platinium has the fuego forge, Black2 and White2 have the strange house, even X and Y got the lost hotel. SWSH has none of this. Even small hidden areas that say require you to use surf or something to reach this game has very few of, most routes are more or less simple lines. I think there was a small island you could reach on route 2 after your bike learned surf? That's it. This game is completely empty, Sun and Moon are open worlds in comparison.