Exactly lmao, Goh catches mons to understand and bond with them, why wouldn't he participate in stuff his mons want to help them just like Ash does all the time. There's a clear double standard here
Let me put it this way:
You are bashed in the head once a week, or you are bashed in the head once a year.
Which would be more annoying to you to have to deal with?
In other words using Ash as an example, is rather ridiculous since he does it so infrequently of those situations, whereas with Go he does things more frequently than Ash in that type of context. In fairness to the argument though, Go has every right to train/use his Pokemon in any way he sees fit or his Pokemon desire.
Also I don't like when people use double standard on situations where it shouldn't apply. Ash only entered contests for example primarily due to his Pokemon or other characters. The one time he chose FREELY to do it himself was in Hoenn, but it made sense considering the contest was unofficial and open to everyone, and was just a way to allow Ash the main character to experience them (especially since DP also provided him strategies and tactics to use in battles because of contests). It's not like May would've benefitted from said unofficial contest, since the Grand Festival was over and it was unofficial, in fact one could argue both May and Ash screwed and cheated younger prospects by hijacking the contest available to anyone.....but whatever.
I'd be more understandable of the double standard argument, if Ash entered contests just as much as May or Dawn and was actually trying to impede their progress by butting in all the time.
That doesn't necessarily apply to Go, but considering he gets to do a lot of stuff that Ash doesn't get to benefit at all, it makes sense why people feel like Ash was cheated.
For example in this episode the only reason Go's Scyther evolved was at the mere suggestion of Wikstrom, while that is fine, I can see how people would see Ash getting cheated, because he really didn't get anything of equal value. I don't know if a Pokemon trusting your more fully and learning a new move is equal to the same thing but with an added evolution or just an evolution.
I mean sure Scyther didn't learn a new move, and kind of already trusted Go, I guess Evolution was being nice to Go, but even so Farfetch'd evolves through battling of specific conditions its weird that it was not triggered, thus I can see from a viewer's perspective Ash was cheated. Though not necessarily in a way where Go is thrown under the bus. But it's weird that Wikstrom went out of his way to help Go evolve his Scyther, but didn't necessarily have anything to really say or do for Ash. No "Your Farfetch'd is really strong, it'll definitely end up being a strong Pokemon, that I will be afraid of if you reach high in the Ultra Rank." Just the generalized speech that was for Go as well and then evolve Scyther. And it's weird because Wikstrom was more heavily invested into Ash and Farfetch'd than Go and Scyther so its weird Wikstrom at the end didn't express anything to Ash.
I feel like if Wikstrom used his own Scizor, then I think this would have largely mitigated the narrative issues that this episode was dealing with because maybe there could've been a scene of Scyther being impressed with Scizor, prompting Wikstrom to then ask Go if he would like to evolve his Scyther.
Instead it was more like:
Writer 1: Go has to have a team change somehow. We can't go with an episode without a team change (even though we have in the past)
Writer 2: EVOLVE THE SCYTHER!!!
Wikstrom- Go, evolve Scyther!!!!!!
Go's Pokedex: Pokedex updated
It feels largely artificial given the episode's structure, but yeah sure, fine Go "deserved" something out of the training whereas Ash did get "detect" and "Farfetch'd trusting Ash" I don't know if I quite agree they are equal given Ash's Farfetch'd logically made more sense to evolve whereas you had to go out of your way to evolve Go's Scyther (narratively), but I guess if Ash's Farfetch'd did evolve on top of it, it wouldn't be an equal dual protagonist situation even though the anime clearly doesn't care about that.