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I'm seeing a lot of seethe about the game being contained entirely within Lumiose City, but honestly, it makes me cautiously optimistic that a lot of the typical "open world" tropes will be left out, and we'll have a more developed game world.
"Open world" isn't worth anything if it's an "empty world," like PLA + S/V were: I hope for a smaller, denser map that doesn't waste my time with padding and "point A > point B" tedium. I haven't even purchased/played any new Pokémon games since X/Y, but I've remained a fan for all of this time, so it'd be kind of poetic to re-enter the series with a re-imagining of the game I left it on.
