>>50085535The level curve and pokemon were copy/pasted from DP, not taking into account how piss-easy forced exp share would make the game.
The fact that they recycled a lot of the code meant that the Sinnoh battle frontier would be extremely easy to implement, and yet they still only gave us the Battle Tower.
Not to mention, Home support STILL hasn't come for it or LA, locking its own regional variants to a fucking spinoff.