>>54432554the difference is the top one clearly looks like an intended area you'd want to explore like the power plant in kanto or new mauville in hoenn
the area at the beginning of b2w2 is not only just a setpiece but its a facsimile of the first route in the game so the player doesn't feel like they're "missing out" for not going there
it's extremely reductive to say "these are both areas you see but can't go to in pokemon games, therefore people shouldn't be mad at XY for the power plant and not be mad at B2W2".
also fags forget that in 2013 shit like this was waved off and ignored because the precedent had been set by GF/TPC to release unfinished games and then "complete" them a year or two later, so people only memed this area a little bit until it was clear we weren't getting Z. the general consensus was (and should still be) that a lot of the design of XY is actually really great but is held back by being clearly unfinished compared to previous games, and Z/X2Y2 would've been another classic.
anyway either way neither of these areas matter and pokemon only started shitting the bed at pic related
