>>54685203gen 7 was peak online pokemon. trading, battling, etc were the best they ever had been, and probabaly ever will.
It's hard to get into USUM because of the cutscenes, but the routes are pretty, the music is nice, and the pokemon are cool, which is all I can ask for.
Not my favorite gen, but gen 8 not having all the pokemon from the previous gens gives me a clear cutoff point between the "playable" and "unplayable" games.