>>57610961I understand it at the time since the story extended to the postgame, plus they probably planned XY at the time, where the level curve was higher for the same part of the game
there was a clear trajectory of having to use your poke non into those higher levels, but then they abandoned it
on top of that, nuzlocke culture took over, making something that's hard to obtain during the main campaign = automatically bad
for me the toiling is the fun, and the final stage is what it will be forever, so I liked it
