>>48790090You have to interact with 32 seperate NPCs, and you can't interact with other people online. A game in 2021 has less online features than a game from 2006.
NPCs spawn in 3 random locations and have up to 8 or so different variations, you have to talk 32 different named ones. These varitaions are almost impossible to see underground unless you are in post-game. They made an infamously tedious way of obtaining a Pokemon even more incredibly tedious.
In the original D/P you could find 1 friend and just go up and down 32 times and it would count. You cannot do that in these games and it will take you 8+ hours to even find the locations of 32 NPCs let alone have RNG give you 32 different ones.