Crazy sells! Wow! Well deserved

You actually took the effort to put an accent over the e.  I respect that.

What does any of this have to do with 435 < 800 being people pretending or not? Only highlights your bias, backing up fallacies just because it supports your opinion. If someone came in here saying people are pretending that there's anything objectively superior about Sw/Sh over past entries, I'd correct them all the same, at the very least I wouldn't support them.

So, Let's Go opened at half this number, and went on to sell 10 million by the end of the year.

Not saying the factor of double will necessarily hold, but given the Switch is set for a monstrous holiday season, we could be in for some scary big holiday numbers for S/S.

That's not an argument, it's one of many facts that supports my argument, that people aren't just pretending Sw/Sh lacks content, it in fact does. It's the single biggest fact given it's the namesake and affects pretty much every single facet of the game, and the person I quoted specifically brought up the number of Pokemon. Very disingenuous of you to insinuate that's the only reason when my initial post made clear it wasn't.

You however claim all other factors aren't equal (this is true, but not in Sw/Sh's favor), yet provide zero explanation. Still I could have elaborated a bit more on those other reasons so I'll do that now. No mega evolutions, cut moves, story is uber minimal, route design is uber linear, no dungeon like areas, nonexistent postgame, only singles n doubles at battle tower, no triple or rotation battles whatsoever, no GTS, etc. Sw/Sh only adds Dynamaxing, Wild Area, raid battles, and camping. Also I just wanna stress again that the amount of possibilitys and options for most all of the content in Pokemon is majorly dependent on the number of Pokemon. Ex: Both Pokemon X/Y and Sw/Sh have double battles of course, but overall you can do more with the double battles in X/Y even if Sw/Sh has things only it's doubles can do.

I didn't isolate that factor though: "So yeah, combined with the other cut mechanics and modes coupled with minimal new stuff, Sw/Sh is in fact lacking content compared to prior games." Just didn't elaborate on those other reasons as like I said, Jules was specifically talking about Pokemon count. I don't know if by lacking in content he means in any sense or an overall sense, so I didn't wanna wall of text without being sure it was the latter first. If it's the former, then that one factor is all that's needed.

Not really 50% but this is definitely the highest grossing pokemon game by far

33.34% increase in price. They're definitely making people pay more for less. Dexit, lacking post game content, shorter story mode, no mega evos or z-moves, and the online raid battles have been having problems according to some, which was one of the big selling points. I think the last one may be related more to Nintendo's crap online than the game itself but still.

And the main big feature, the open world, has been criticized.

I'm not in a rush to get the game and will probably buy it used/discounted but there's been plenty of fair criticism. The bulk of the complaints seem to point to the game being rushed.

I say all of this as someone who enjoyed Let's Go, even with it's problems.

If I had a $ for every time I've read this online the last few weeks...

...because it's true. >_>