I'm not even a stickler for graphics, but when Game Freak continuously gives us worse and worse Pokemon games (removed the OFF button for EXP share, removed several important moves for no reason, can't turn off the new friendship mechanic that trivializes what little challenge remains, no postgame that isn't online play that is done better on Pokemon Showdown, Fairy type, smaller list of new Pokemon than any Gen 1 - 5 game, uglier Pokemon than even Gen 4 and 5, no more national dex, reuse of the same models for almost a decade...) it's kinda hard to ignore the one thing they have left