HG and SS also allowed you to refight the gym leaders with improved teams. iirc. There was more endgame content in that one than in the majority of other titles of the series.
It does, I'm not arguing its not a phenomenal game and a definite height of the series that makes many of the future games look like garbage in comparison.
Only that people seem to have placed it in this pedestal of nostalgia and forgotten that its equally flawed as any of them too, and its main flaw is bigger than most.
HG and SS also allowed you to refight the gym leaders with improved teams. iirc. There was more endgame content in that one than in the majority of other titles of the series.
It does, I'm not arguing its not a phenomenal game and a definite height of the series that makes many of the future games look like garbage in comparison.
Only that people seem to have placed it in this pedestal of nostalgia and forgotten that its equally flawed as any of them too, and its main flaw is bigger than most.