I think the games are still fun, I still enjoy playing them but with that being said there are still issues that they could really address. Pokemon being cut, I don't care. This is something that doesn't bother me in the slightest, because I and a lot of other people are NEVER going to use all like, what, 900+ Pokemon. They are going to catch it, put it in a box, never touch it, and use the a better Pokemon. Sure there are going to be some people that are going to like some of the cut ones, but I'd hardly call it that big of a deal.
So this isn't something I think personally needs to be focused on too much. I like that they are making competitive battling easier to get into, I personally don't do competitive battling, but I do enjoy trying to get a nice competitive Pokemon just because I have the options too now. It's another fun thing for me to do, and while that's not going to be for everyone, there does need to be more incentive to play past the story with more post game content. Content that should be in the game already, not something that feels like they are tacking on at the last minute, to try and get some more money out of people.
Animations. Animations NEED to change. If they are going to cut Pokemon, that's fine, but they then need to actually allocate resources over to improving the animations. They are on a home console now, no more doing things so poorly and just getting by on the bare minimum. People will be more fine with cut Pokemon, if they show a drastic improvement in animations and show that things are improving. Not show that they're just copy and pasting assets over to make sure they get a game out every single year. I get it, game development is difficult. Especially releasing a new Pokemon game every year, but they make so much money. They need to start getting more people in to help if they aren't already, that way things can be improved.
Scaling. I get it, this one may come off as being a bit nit picky. Some people probably aren't going to care too much about this, and some people probably are, but I want better scaling of Pokemon. Wailord is supposed to be this massive huge Pokemon, and you see how massive he is in the IoA, and when you catch Wailord and use him, well, he's basically the size of your trainer. It bugs me SO much, and I really wish they would fix or at least do something with the scaling. Let's Go had some decent scaling, Pokemon Stadium 1 and 2 had scaling on the N64, Pokemon Battle Revolution had some decent scaling as well. I don't know if they avoided scaling because of Dynamax and they didn't want a big Pokemon getting bigger so they kept them all close in size, or if they just butchered this game so badly because it was their first Pokemon game on home console. I don't know, but I'd love to have better scaling in the future.
Regional Variants. I like the regional variants that they are starting to do as well. Sure, if they start giving regional variants to Pokemon in older games it may seem odd, since they weren't there before. However, I do like the fact that this seems to be something that is sticking around. I like that we can see new versions of old Pokemon, still get excited for them, make possible old Pokemon relevant again, and even give them new evolutions as well if they wanted too. I actually enjoy how they've been doing this.
Imo, there are things The Pokemon Company is doing right, because they are still managing to get fans excited for the games even if they are messing up. We are all still going out and getting it, because either something got us excited and interested in wanting to try it, or the problems weren't things that a lot of people felt ruined it for them since the game still sold incredibly well. It's just they are taking one step forward and a bunch of steps backwards. I'm hoping a big reason Sw & Sh is the way it was, is because this was their first home console game. Once we get the next home console game, if it's the same, well, then I don't think it was because it was the first console game and it was just laziness. Which some people are going to say regardless. I don't have my hopes high for the next game, but I'm hoping that they are going to take the criticisms people had with Sw & Sh and fix them and improve upon them.