>>49476864The entire game is a bunch of really good ideas that would massively improve the standard Pokemon experience, they just forgot to make the underlying game.
Take SwSh, replace routes with the open wilderness of PLA - complete with the Pokedex research mechanics and the seamless catching and battling - and you've got the basic template for a really good Pokemon game. On its own though, PLA is just a collection of ideas with no real substantive purpose.