I relate best with your third point, but more generally, the original Pokemon games were strategic--to win battles you had to pick a good moveset, understand th

I relate best with your third point, but more generally, the original Pokemon games were strategic--to win battles you had to pick a good moveset, understand the type system, and train your pokemon to high levels. In this game, battles are mostly just screen mashing, and leveling up is purely about catching (either by catching a high level or catching enough pokemon to have the stardust to level one up), and battles are still not a major component of the game. I've actually gone back to playing the original games for the first time in over a decade, and it's a lot more fun than Go. :/