>>46980993Sure. You can have agency in picking what color shirt you wear in the morning, but does it affect anything throughout the day? No.
It affects literally nothing unless you're going to the green-shirt convention, except the kicker is that even if you picked orange or purple, you'd still need to go there anyway.
>b-b-b-but it's agency!No, it's not. It would be agency if you could pick Sobble and defeat Kabu first since you have the type advantage over him. That's all gyms are, they're just a "shirt convention" where you may or may not get through them quicker depending on what color shirt you wore that day. It has absolutely no bearing on your decisions throughout the game.
Get a grip on yourself, if you're going to go to this length to try and sell how Gen 7 and 8 are somehow the same as other gens when the opposite is abundantly clear in the gameplay progression, chances are you're already stretching your argument too thin.
