It feels like Gamefreak has really struggled to appeal to the various different sets of fans post Gen 5, I wonder how much of the hand holding and other issues are a reaction to the backlash gen 5 sadly got.

Definitely agree, it feels like the start of something really really promising.

Football Manager is weirdly comforting to me, there’s just something about losing hours upon hours to what is really just a very good spreadsheet.