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You think being able to encounter powerful wild monsters and challenging yourself to defeat and catch them is not soulful but spreadsheets with unique evolution mechanics no one cares about and grinding are? So you admit you are part of the problem. That's the first step.
Now let me go roam around in arseus where a wild mon might slice me apart since I'm still early game for a kino experience. Hell, if I survive I'll have caught a powerful mon after a memorable encounter... Sigh, so boring!
It would be so much better if I, an antisocial autist, tried to hunt down other antisocial autists that have the exact same kind of autism as I do, so that we can both be forced to do something neither of us wants to do so that I can complete my offline single-player game that I am playing to actively avoid socializing/relying on/associating myself with others, on an expensive device I wouldn't even take out of my living room - let alone take to the streets or whatever.