>>53722404>Because the franchise had redeeming elements before thenAnd then Shitnova happened, a failed attempt at a soft reboot where all the "new" pokemon are just ugly bootlegs of gen 1 pokemon, objectively worse, and they flooded the game with storyshittery where you have to sit through mountains of tedious dialogue and unskippable cutscenes and stop every 5 minutes to go deal with team rocket- I mean Team plasma who is just diet team rocket and they don't even try to hide it.
Everything after HGSS was a fucking mistake and if they would just have stopped at HGSS the franchise would have had a graceful death instead of limping along in the disgusting failure of a state it is now.
