I've got into Pokémon, when I was 6 years old. I watched the anime in the tv and I asked my older brother, what Pokémon means, because I didn't knew what it was. Then he told me that Pokémon were those animals / monsters and those characters with big eyes were the people. And I got immediately passionated with Pokémon. I was in Pokémon Hype with my brothers. But then when they grew up, they had other hobbies and they didn't care anymore for Pokémon but I was and I am still in love with Pokémon, its my passion.
My first Pokémon game was Pokémon Silver, then Pokémon Red, and Pokémon Crystal. My other brother played Pokémon Blue, and Pokémon Gold and Ruby and I played Sapphire. Then he got into Playstation, Xbox and other console games and he never played Pokémon again. I don't know if it was because he didn't like anymore or if it was because of his friendships... But I never changed myself for anyone, I've played always Pokémon one version of every Pokémon Game till now and I am still playing Pokémon Sword + Extension Pass. And I absolutely love it. I know Game Freak makes many many errors when they're making the games, but just think about it, if you would make those games, without knowing anything about Game Development, wouldn't your games look more terrible then theirs? I think Sword and Shield was made out of rush. They had a date where they had to publish these games, and they had no time to do it properly. So that's why Hop has the same movements like the one from S/M/USUM and the Pokémon too. And they did a looot of errors in the game. I've played through the game and I finished the story and the end story now next I'm going to play the extension pass.
If GF would have more time to work on this games, they could have done the games look better and work better. But yeah I don't know who of them decides, if its Nintendo or the Pokémon Company that wants that the games are published for a certain date. That's bad actually. I think they should have more time to do it. So I first played the games because I watched an episode of Pokémon but I know that the games are older than the anime, and thats good as it is.