Pokemon has never been that challenging, and as the games went on they became far easier and easier, but most still had limits how far you could overlevel yourself without going significantly out of your way to grind for hours or days since they were linear.

For those that have already played Scarlet and Violet, since it's a lot more open world than previous games, is it even easier to overlevel without even intending to? From what I have seen of people who have already gotten the game, it's incredibly easy to get side-tracked from just completely ignoring the main story like in Skyrim, Witcher, BotW, etc .even very early in the tutorial before you even reach the school to just explore around catching and battling Pokemon, and after the school segment it's even easier once a much larger part of the world map opens up and you can do quests and gyms in any order. And I saw that the further you travel the faster the wild Pokemon's level goes up.

Is it easy to just forget about the gyms because you are exploring so much and end up with a team that just plows through everything by the time you start doing the actual main game quests? Do the gyms and terra battles and such level with you? Or does the game in no way stop your level 10 team from running into a gym full of level 40 Pokemon? Or vice-versa where your level 30 team takes on a gym that is tossing level 8 Pokemon at you?