>>49528432it just feels a bit contrived, having the medic lady say "we should open some kind of center for Pokemon" after 5 seconds of being in the presence of a Croagunk felt very on the nose
plus it reduces the available elements for later Legends games, they could have an entire Legends: Mew game where the side-plot is setting up the first gym challenge in Kanto as opposed to shoving it into some 2 hour long DLC plotline here