What series critiques do you have?
>Having that many Pokémon of the series was a mistake.
From a gameplay perspective (especially stadium) only 20 or so were worth a damn. Having some as just enemies or NPCs would have vastly improved the quality of the game
Making everything available limited the cartage budget that could have been used for animation/etc. We could have had puzzle league quality rpg on GBC. Also a mystery dungeon quality by gen 3

>Making pokemon fauna vastly limited how interesting they could be
Let's be fucking real here, having them as pets was a stupid idea. People are more interested in sentient ones like Mewtwo or Meowth. Pets are stupid and unnecessary responsibility, basically another mouth to feed. Also the humans were really dull, in all media except for maybe the manga.
I mean mystery dungeon blew away any pokemon game before it

>iv/evs
IVs are stupid, EVs should be visible and easily adjustable like per level in legend of mana

>Too many vaporware titles
Snap, Hey you Pikachu,pinball, etc.
Back in the 90's if you bought a random Square title you were in for a good experience, aside from the main seires conquest,and mystery/