>>50791824Listen, Pokemon fans only really care about one thing and that's the post-game. They want a bottomless series of sidequests and activities to do after the credits, so they can revisit the game virtually forever. It's the real reason why BW2 is popular.
If either ORAS or XY delivered on Battle Frontier type content (instead of selling out to mobile "gamers"), they would be considered among the best games. Guaranteed. Nearly everything else about them was a significant improvement over past gens and warmly received at release. They were just really fucking short-lived.