>>56459216I think SM's the way to go if you enjoy JRPGs in general.
It's really unlike other mainline Pokemon games, in terms of character writing, environmental storytelling, and pacing- and that's off-putting if you're only going in to play Pokemon.
Also almost no postgame to speak of.
Otherwise, go for USUM for an overall better gameplay experience.
Move Tutors are a big quality of life and it's easy to rack up BP for one of, like, three pieces of post-game there is.
Also Ribombee can learn Sticky Web.