I hated Sun and Moon a lot. They were my least favorite before the Switch games but they were the last games I'd truly consider to be Pokemon games.

It's abundantly clear that Pokemon GO changed everything about the design process. The new Pokemon designs, the "stories", the character designs, and even the theming. There aren't many new "cool" Pokemon anymore. They're all round, bright colored, marketable mascots. Pokemon has always had that but it was balanced with cooler stuff.

I hate Sun and Moon but they're really the last Pokemon games that felt like Pokemon. It feels like they actually tried (even if they failed.) Everything now is just super homogenous and boring.