>>50517885both are equally bad in different ways
kalos was excessive to the point of harming team-building (almost every single gift/mandatory encounter in the game is identical to RBY, prompting a lot of teams to look the same (going off forced, non-legendary encounters: Kalos starter/Kanto starter/route 1 pidgey/lapras/snorlax/lucario)), as well as lazy in terms of copy-pasting Viridian and the extra legendaries
BUT, it can be argued that the issues with team-building can be easily ignored by actively choosing not to use every forced encounter, as well as making the Viridian copy-paste acceptable by literally giving the forest a new perspective. The distribution of megas was also relatively more balanced; still somewhat unfair (gens 2, 4, and 5 got very little, while gens 1 and 3 got a lot; I realize the latter's because of the remakes, but it's applicable regardless), but at least other regions got a CHANCE to have megas
alola was far more in-your-face about it; see
>>50518309 for how soon kanto is shoved in your face, as well as the obvious examples of pikachu valley, lt surge's gym replica, etc in usum especially; characters actively reference kanto a lot, kanto characters return with redesigns in tow, and every single regional variant introduced that gen was from kanto- no exceptions
BUT, it could be argued that it made way more SENSE there, since SM were anniversary games and a big part of anniversaries almost always tends to be celebrating where it "all began". It could also be argued that since your character literally moved from Kanto, the room in the post I tagged earlier is just what a character like that would have in the first place, as does the fact that your mom's meowth is kantonian and such. Lillie's departure could even be argued as something she decided on due to your talks with her off-screen if you're an autistic RP fag like I am who makes up logical throughlines for decisions that're never touched on in-story in your head
