>>55451231Yes, it's because most people who play Pokemon are casuals, and action combat appeals to casuals since it requieres zero thought.
Even the piss easy SV DLC started making casuals seethe because it had a bunch of "hard" combats and all of them went "HURR THIS ISN'T WHAT POKEMON IS ABOUT".
This franchise is held back not just by Game Freak, but by it's stupid fanbase.
Remove the fanbase and Game Freak will keep doing the same, remove Game Freak and the devs will just make Pokemon even easier to not offend the people who want to run teams of "cute" shitmons and waifumons.
