So now that a week has passed and the honeymoon phase is ending for me, I kinda realise there is one thing I legit don't like about PLA, and it is how battles are for the most part completely unnecessary, even when you battle the nobles you don't need to go into turn based combat, it is actually optimal to never start a pokemon battle agaisnt the nobles because that way you can beat them faster.
Besides the few times the player is forced to battle agaisnt story related alphas, legendaries or one of the few trainers, you dont need to engage in battle at all in this game and when he does the battles are most of the time going to be one sided for the player because of items and a full team of 6 pokemon.
Even if this game has some alright battles in the post game like Ingo and Volo+Giratina battles are for the most even more simple than the ones from the classic games.
Yes I understand the focus of this game is catching pokemon and exploring the world but I would like better battles or that at least battles felt important to the gameplay.