everything went wrong after black & white
i think the direction they're taking with the pokemon themselves and the region gimmick is great (terastallization is awesome and dynamaxing was good too). the only thing i don't like is how careless they're becoming with making the games. both sword/shield and scarlet/violet have or had hella bugs and it seems clear to me that as long as people keep buying the games Game Freak will just not put as much effort into optimizing their games. :/
i've been playing blaze black instead, 100% recommend btw