If you called Zelda or Resident Evil a metroidvania you'd get weird looks.

You can use summons and spirit ashes which are basically easy mode.

It's so perfectly FFX I love it

You're making it sound like they're giving tech support for each individual game or something, it's just servers for the transfer service. Something as basic as that and their infinite greed won't allow it.

I will never understand why certain pokemon fans defend these decisions. They are not indie.

Because it's the biggest franchise on earth and they can't even be bothered to support a way to transfer your old pokemon. Would be less of a problem if people didn't give up on fighting against dexit, then any Home compatible game could've been used as storage

They're called slop because there's a new one every two weeks, even then I think people take the word too seriously. There's plenty of friendslop I like and I still call them friendslop, just, affectionately