>>46100267I think Armor is pretty good as a early game experience (IE: you start it as soon as you can with a relatively underlevelled (Sub-15) team) but really fails as a Post Game one and for Crown it is the other way around, it is kinda shit to do early because there is much more of a "Come Back When Champion" feeling to everything, yeah, you can just lose to Not-Rose and the levels are actually adjusted after that for shit like Den Raids, but it it also practically fucking rains Legendaries, and you honestly probably don't want to it until you have Fly/Quicktravel/Air Taxi because it isn't as compact as IoA and getting to the top of the mountain only to get
"You have to be Champion to Catch Calyrex" is one of a hell of blueball if you reach that point before even having flight.
The main issue i think is precisely that people started both with their "Done Everything" Character, thus CT has a strong first impression by being a Post-Game Legendary hunt and IoA has a weak one being all about slowly ramping up and training Pokémon with very clear cut "This is as far as you can go for now" points that basically all are at the Dojo, which is not far from the station.
