A toggleable hard mode is really that much to ask for?

A menu option to disable exp share?

Fuck man just give me another pokeathlon

I don't see how any of these optional things would ruin the expirence, be expensive to implement, or are that much to ask for.

Hell I'd love to be able to go into buildings again, but I guess that would ruin the games irrevocably

pokemon just had better marketing, yugioh and digimon are much more complex than pokemon(probably too complex for the simplicity of pokemon).