I just noticed the quote to me even if a bit late.
The first comment is subjective. Since that victory came at the cost of contrived writing, it's not better to me (and many agree with that sentiment). For a comparison, I felt the Z-move finisher in the last episode was poorly handled which dampened my enjoyment of what came before.
Second one is a strawman, he's literally a few feet away, and Pikachu is capable of making big leaps from higher positions without any risk. Third one is an even worse strawman, your defense for not having Ash do anything is a whataboutism at him having "stolen enough focus in the past", wut m8? Last I recall, the tagline was 'co-protagonist'. This isn't even about focus like you're implying, this is about not respecting consistency of a character's writing (which Akao has a nasty history of in this series).
@LazySpy and
@Spider-Phoenix already gave better and detailed responses pertaining to this topic and the latter even provided a simple solution as to alleviate the issue.