Pokemon Sun/Moon truly delivered

[Jpcc86]

~7-8hrs into it and these are my first impressions:

pros:
- Love the new format in visuals. Finally feels like 3d. Big leap for this game.
- Love the world design in general.
- Love the island challenge as opposed to gym battles - cause you still feel like you are battling gym leaders/strong enemies while doing some other aditional trials.
- Love the addition of Poke Rides as substitute to HMs. That really takes out one of the annoying aspects of the game.
- Love SOS battles as opposed to the terrible Sky Battles.
- Love trumps hate.

Cons:
- The story is terrible. And this is an even more story-driven than any previous game, so im really not loving that aspect. Team Skull is easily the worst "evil team" in the history of the franchise IMO and the second place is not even close.
- Characters. Dont like most them. Hau is supposed to be your rival? Its the worst rival in the entire franchise. I dont care about that guy. I like to have a rival that teases me and makes me wanna kick his ass.
- The National Pokedex is short and lacking of many competitive pokemons plus almost all of the new Pokemon have terrible base speed for unexplainable reasons.
- No Stan Lee cameo so far.

So I do feel its delivering for me, but the story aspects of it really annoy me (maybe im too old?) I hope it gets better as I progress.