These little bumbling shitheads are partly to blame for the state of the franchise. They can't handle complex routes. They don't know what they like and so funny overdesigned trash comes up frequently in Nintendo's surveys. The Azure Flute WOULD have been too complex for them, and they are ruining your experience.

Game Freak shares the other part of the blame, because instead of Auschwitzing these undesirables to Let's Go, they doubled down on dumbing down Sword and Shield. The further we get from the 90s the more Game Freak tries to develop for these waddling sub-humans instead of following a creative vision, and it's a fucking disgrace.