I think it's mainly overplay and emulation stripping a lot of the SOVL out of them.
Pokemon games are still some of the best games you can actually play on an emulator and up until like 3-4 years ago the GBA games were the most easily accessible. I'd go as far to say that they still are, even on modern hardware you're limited to playing the DS games at base speed rather than turboing through the GBA games.
>>55644081I started playing Pokemon when I was 3, my first games were Ruby and Fire Red. I'm 24 now.