Currently finishing up Violet and it's really driving home how boring and lifeless and uninspired this gen was. In retrospect it almost feels like they made the Wild Area as a proof of concept for what an open world Pokemon game could look like and then just decided to construct all of gen 8 around it as an afterthought. I missed Ruby/Sapphire/Emerald and Diamond/Pearl/Platinum because they came out when I was in high school and thought I was too mature for Pokemon but Sw/Sh is pretty easily the worst gen that I've played to date.