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>It doesn't need to have the battle frontier
>It doesn't need to have contests
>It doesn't need to have the Safari Zone
>It doesn't need to have the game corner
>It doesn't matter if the Gym Leaders only have 3 Pokemon
>It doesn't matter that the Elite 4 only have 4 Pokemon
>It doesn't matter that half the region is locked behind the post game
>It doesn't matter that your rivals interrupt you all the time
>It doesn't need to have secret bases
>It doesn't matter that the region isn't cohesively put together
>It doesn't matter that you can't catch non-new pokemon before the post game
>It doesn't matter that you're constantly interrupted by cutscenes
>It doesn't matter that the tutorials are unskippable
>It doesn't matter that there are no Gym Leader rematches
>It doesn't matter that they removed the PokeFinder
>It doesn't matter that they removed honey trees
>It doesn't matter that the graphics are low quality for the console it's on
>It doesn't matter that some sprites are literally just copy and pasted
>It doesn't matter that it removed berry farming
>It doesn't matter that it removed ball capsules
>It doesn't matter that they removed the Pokeathalon
>It doesn't matter that the game is completely linear
>But it's fine because I grew up with it