>>50156530>other games didn't take the majority of your timeThat depends entirely on how you define "cutscenes" in older games.
>not even BWAgain, it seems like less but there are just as many rival and Plasma battles and other story events that interrupt you.
It may feel like more but that's only because the 3D games are more detailed. Pokemon has been linear and story-based for a long time, that didn't suddenly change, they just stopped forcing "exploration" on you with random caves and slower routes.
