>>57434869DP trashing didn't start until BW came out. The games were praised as improvements over RS which were monumental downgrades from GS and started the "Pokemon is no longer cool" narrative. Especially given it's when TPC was formed and started to Jew its playerbase with the Gamecube games and mid ass remakes
RS, XY and SwSh were the only games not seen as monumental improvements on the slop that came before. It's more noticeable with XY/SwSh because the prior Gens didn't get Third Versions that fixed the issues of the previous games altogether. BW is more of a sidegrade coming off of Platinum/HGSS, better engine at the expense of more limitations and less content but going off of Masuda's slop he never really was able to actually improve as a game designer which is why the modern games are struggling because his methods fucking suck
