>>57751057>>57752420This. Mainline catering to competitive PVP has made the games worse for everyone.
For single player campaigns, it ruined game balance and made the games empty to the point where there's barely anything you can do after completing it aside from multiplayer and collecting Pokémon.
For multiplayer PVP, players are forced to slog through 20+ hours of a subpar JRPG and even more hours for teambuilding to compete in said PVP with no official option for them to just hop in and battle.
The divorce was long overdue.