The grinding is less of an issue than being too easy. You can play through a number of the games with just your starter pokemon, playing with close to no strate

The grinding is less of an issue than being too easy. You can play through a number of the games with just your starter pokemon, playing with close to no strategy at all. People add artificial difficulty through extra rules, which seems like a strange thing to have to do: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuzlocke https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nuzlocke