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No. HGSS is still the best game in the franchise, but this comes at a close second. There's just too many flaws to say it's the best.
If Gen 9 takes the classic Pokémon formula (and by classic formula, I mean Gens 1 - 4, not Gen 5 and above) and implements everything that made PLA so good, then Gen 9 may be the best Pokémon games in existence. That's a big "if" though, especially considering both Ohmori and Masuda are going to be in charge of it.