>>58302166These four:
>>58302222 >>58303019 >>58302903 >>58302256-It's explicitly a general admission all-ages Pokemon college meant to facilitate and safely recreate the "going on the adventure", assuming you can afford the tuition/have the connections.
-A lot of people probably missed out on their opportunity to be a "proper" Pokemon trainer in their youth for whatever reason: school, work, maybe there was an accident or a death in the family, maybe they had a Pokemon phobia growing up, etc..
-Regions like Paldea are implied to have spent most of their history actively engaged in endless conflict, maybe when old-timer here was a kid he COULDN'T go on a Pokemon journey because it was too dangerous, the state wouldn't tolerate it, or he had to subsistence farm.