>>58769042this
the level curve meme is really exaggerated, it's noticeably fucky around this one part but apart from that it's pretty normal
in fact, most flaws with hgss are a lot more minor than people let them on to be
for example i regularly see people say "half/most of the gen 2 pokemon are only available in kanto" when in reality, if we take that at face value it's only porygon2 (and even that has an asterisk next to it) and if we take that as in "half/most of the gen 2 pokemon are only available in the postgame" it's like 6 pokemon total, one of which is a legendary
