Every single game in the pokemon franchise, including the spinoffs, are designed for practically anyone who can read and understand the most basic mechanics to complete the game.Arguably, any game you can think of off the top of your head is designed to be able to be completed by most anyone. Is it harder to do for some people more than others? Of course.
The only real complaint I'd have about this hand holding business is the option to skip the godforsaken Capture tutorial. YES game, I know how to tap 3 different tabs to catch a Pokemon. Or at least, let me accelerate the dialogue a bit faster by holding the button. And maybe having some legendaries practically handed over to you in ORAS when they used to be difficult for us back in the gameboy days (I say used to because if you replay it again without the mentality of a 7-9 year old, it's pretty damn easy). They made up for it with having to make the Hoopa Hole Legendaries a bit more picky with you than ever though.
At the end of the day, the games are as easy or as difficult as you choose to make it past a certain degree. A majority of the complaints come from personal preference and subjectivity. In my opinion, this kind of subjectivity has come down to how you approached the game. It's not Game Freak's fault you decided to read every spoiler posted on Famitsu and CoroCoro, and it isn't their fault you looked up everything that was datamined the first week and suddenly the game's too easy. It's also not their fault you underestimated the game and allowed your pokemon to be 15 levels below the level cap of the boss and have lost about 20 times because of this. The fact of the matter is, that there are myriad variables as to why a game could be immensely difficult for one person and exceptionally easy for another that I'd be here all day listing off. It shouldn't matter to compare people's experiences because it isn't like everyone shares the same brain or something. But here we are. (Granted, a great portion of Pokemon's fans are children, so I cannot fault them for something they can't really help at their age)
If it really is easy and it bores you, Game Freak doesn't need to lift a finger for you to really make the game more difficult. Then again, that's what the post game areas are for, right?
You can turn off EXP with the press of a button, Free candies are now incredibly easy to get if you exploit the poke beans enough, you can go in with pokemon under the level caps, you can go a no potions run, do a Nuzlocke, the possibilities are infinite. Nobody's going to do that except for yourself though. People shouldn't get this sense of entitlement that Game Freak must make the game as unplayable as Dark Souls in order to get entertainment out of it. Go look for a Feebas if you're so bored for a challenge. I'm sure you won't mind throwing your DS out the window after the 100th Magikarp you find if it means you can hold it over your inferior friends' heads (sure you might lose some friends but who cares, your Milotic wrecks all their lame pokemon!).