They cut so many things from this that make even less sense than no battle tower too
>no save file playtime
>no disabling battle animations
>no shift/set mode
All three of those were around since Japanese Red and Green, so they’re cutting stuff that’s been in place since back when they were even worse at coding than today.
Other stuff they cut or changed:
>no E4 + champion refights (again, something that’s been a thing since RG)
>no Pokerus (been a thing since Gen 2, mechanically means EV training is horrible if you don’t want to grind up the half million+ to vitamin instead)
>professors break the naming trend of being named after trees that’s been a thing since Oak
>no separate rooms for each E4 member, which even RG did
>gym challenges don’t even take place in the actual gyms anymore and are mostly completely menial garbage and maybe a trainer or two if you get lucky
>taking classes in a Pokemon game when kids played Pokemon to get away from classes
>regular breeding (picnics are hell to get eggs from)
>reusable TMs, and somehow making getting more copies even more aggravating than in SwSh or BDSP
>no ingame lottery (staple since Gen 2, and with enough trading a reliable daily source of PP Ups and Rare Candies)
>level cap being PLA style instead of only applying to traded mons, while understandable for balance means you can’t have situations where you manage to catch something drastically stronger than anything you have and cruise to victory on it (like the Dugtrio in Diglett Tunnel or going for Zapdos early in Gen 1, or somehow shoving a legendary beast into a ball early on in Gen 2)
>possibly move transfers when that’s been a thing since Gen 1 -> Gen 2
There’s so many things they didn’t do that were series staples it makes me feel like these are just fangames
