On one hand, I can understand people being upset with the National Dex or if they believe that GameFreak are no good dirty liars or whatever for cutting the dex and then re-using models like game devs do; but on the other as someone who was never really into competitive Pokemon, I feel much more inspired/able to actually 'catch 'em all' than I would be if there were 800-something dudes scattered about. I'm a fairly casual Pokemon player, I catch my favorites and I catch new ones and regardless 90% of them stay in the box all game. I see every game as a new adventure, and I'm sorry for those who like to bring in their old teams but this was going to happen sooner or later - I just wish it was handled with a bit more...care? 


Frankly I'm more inclined to try out competitive battling in SwSh than I ever have before because they made it easier to do the insane EV/IV training that crazy people do.