Pokemon Direct announced for January 9th 2020

[Wyrdness]

Hiku said:

That it had been done before Sword & Shield isn't relevant to my point though.

I said I don't like this direction.
I didn't suggest that it started with Sword & Shield. I just used examples from games I'm familiar with. And I didn't question why GameFreak are continuing this model. Just that I don't like it. Others are free to think what they want.

The differences between the base versions in the older games were essentially just different pokemon you could catch. But you could just trade for those pokemon.

This is what I responded to yeah you said you didn't like it but alluded to it not being done before which as pointed out isn't true regardless of what games you're familiar with.