>>48678242False equivalency. It's more like if every Zelda game tried to shove in "it's dangerous to go alone, take this!" or if a Mario game did the same bullshit with Toads claiming "your princess is in another castle!"
See, that's the difference. Other game series don't do this same half assed bullshit because they've moved on to bigger and better things, yet it seems that ever since Sun and Moon Pokemon is obsessed with regressing further and further.