On one hand, I called it, the game is quite integrated with Pokemon Go (as anyone could have predicted, tbf), but on the other hand, it looks incredibly cheap and simplistic. I'm not sure I'm on board with this.

Yep!it makes the world more alive with all these pokemon.

I realize it's funny how I had loathed the idea of another gen 1 remake, but I would of atleast considered getting it simply for being the newest Pokemon game on Switch to battle in. As it is Pokemon Let's Go is a no go. No way can I see myself picking this up with only Gen 1 Pokes, no online, and a likely watered down battle system, though battling is already crippled by the first two points, and possibly further destroyed if we learn there's no held items, no abilitys, no modes other than singles, no breeding, no EVs, and so ons. They already took out essentials like gen 2-7 Pokes, battling wild Pokemon, and online play. It'd be naive to think they'd stop there, but ah whatever, I'm obviously not who they're targeting. For it's intended audience of Pokemon Go players it'll be a huge step up.

Been playing a bit of Pokemon Quest on Switch, it's enjoyable enough. Controls surprisingly well in docked mode with a pro controller considering it was mainly built around touch input.

What do you mean? Its coming in September. There will be Super Smash. 

Yes Team Eevee!

The Pokemon Company really likes to do its own thing outside Nintendo's influence, huh?

This Go Evee thing looks like it was entirely made for kids/newcomers. Graphics are bad too imo. More wait for the core fans, it seems...

The trailer literally says, " Your First Adventure In a New Style." The game seems to be playing on the same nostalgia as Pokemon Go by appealing to people who played Pokemon Yellow twenty years ago. 

Eurogamer said:
2019 core RPG (untitled) is set to be "in the style of X and Y and Sun and Moon". This should appease competitive players, with Let's Go! aimed at a broad audience, "a core RPG for everyone".

2019 core RPG (untitled) is set to be "in the style of X and Y and Sun and Moon". This should appease competitive players, with Let's Go! aimed at a broad audience, "a core RPG for everyone".

— Eurogamer (@eurogamer) May 30, 2018

I played Yellow when it was released and didn't play another main Pokemon title afterward, so I am part of that target audience. Yellow had random enounters. Yellow had you weaken a Pokemon before capturing it. Yellow had HMs. None of the changes made for this yellow remake appeal to me whatsoever.  Pokemon Go appealed to people because it was free. Not because they did away with weakening Pokemon before catching them. If they just remade Yellow faithfully then the nostalgia effect would have been so much stronger.