>>53807723I understand why Rotom is a thing, its to make the Pokemon universe feel more fanciful and less grounded in reality, which for a fantasy universe is something you want to try doing. In older Pokemon games you just accessed a regular computer for Pokemon boxes, which is fine, but if Pokemon really are meant to be a significant part of peoples lives, why wouldn't you want mundane things like computers instead be "Pokefied" for lack of a better term?
That being said, they definitely went about this in the worst possible way. If you try too hard to be fanciful, you risk killing your suspension of disbelief, and having inanimate appliances turned into quirky sidekick characters did just that.
