>>45963509trash pacing, trash level curve, the team rocket plot makes no sense, dex literally consists of reject shitmons, gyms 5 through 7 are weak as piss because of 'muh non-linearity,' postgame is also weak as piss until you get to Red who is unnecessarily overlevelled (i guess it's a cool challenge but everything up until there sucks), sure, it has two regions but Johto is sloppily designed and Kanto is just inferior in every way to how it was presented in the original games.
These games were cool when they came out but dogshit in retrospect, especially when put next to the masterpiece that was Hoenn.