You two missed the entire point of my post or just didn't bother to actually read it. The first thing I said was make the gym leaders competent. After that, I said make them a higher level because they should be due to their status.
1. The gym leaders should be competent in order to make the battle challenging. They should probably have some coverage moves to cover their type to also go along with that.
2. They should be a higher level than most trainers (minus the ones in Victory Road) and close to the same level as each other. Can their be gym leaders who are a bit lower? Yeah, but it shouldn't be more than maybe 10.
3. If they're making gym leaders solely milestones like bosses are in RPGs, then make rematches. In Gen III, Brock was considered an absolute joke due to even Charmander having no issue with him thanks to Metal Claw. They somewhat mended this in Gen IV with the gym leader rematches in Johto.
Just dumping off the older Pokemon because they're old is a great way to irritate a lot of people. I never said to make every Pokemon competitively viable. I actually said the opposite and that I didn't feel they should have to.
My complaint was GF clearly not showing any concern for older Pokemon in an almost insulting way. Examples:
1. Ledian, who has a base 55 ATK, no lore involving punching or even being a fighter, learned one punching move when it debuted and is known for its SpD...got Iron Fist as an ability.
2. Rotom has multiple forms. They're all awesome and adorable. They use to be Electric/Ghost, regardless of form, so Levitate as an ability, while not making much sense (since all its forms touch the ground), made competitive sense. Once their types matched their form, their abilities should have been made to match too. Instead, we now have a Flying type Rotom-F with Levitate as an ability. They might fix it this generation, an with abilities like Aerialate and Refrigerate, they have options to make each form more unique.
3. Delibird gets a lot of hate to this day. Whether people hate the design, which I find adorable, the moveset or the fact that it has Vital Spirit and Insomnia taking up two ability slots! GF gave Delibird two abilities that do the same damn thing! One is a hidden ability! They wasted its goddamn HA on something it could already do! They took time making sure Delibird was more worthless! There are many other examples, but this one is by far the most frustrating example of GF, not just not caring about, but actively worsening an older Pokemon.
I'm alright with adding more Pokemon as long as they show the same care to every single family in some way. They can even add in new items to counter some of these effects if they want. Just give them something. They've shown the ability to do with some Pokemon.
1. Farfetch'd got the Stick item, which raises its Crit ratio two stages. As of Gen VI, that means 100% crits.
2. Psychic, Poison and Dragon types all got too powerful, so they made Dark, Steel and Fairy types respectively to deal with them.
3. People wanted to bond more easily with their Pokemon and got Pokemon Amie.
4. People wanted customisable trainers and got them.
I don't expect them to get everything right the first time. That'd be insane. But every problem I've listed has been around years, decades for some of them.
And to cover the incessant need of the internet asking for every region in one game, that's stupid. The only way to pull that off would be in an MMO and even then, it'd still be a watered down version of the games. Nobody wants that. XD
About Sun & Moon
I like the designs of the Pokemon we've seen so far and I love that it's a tropical region. Watch there still be a snow area. XD
