Same. I've beaten violet and it isn't remotely as bad as reddit led me to believe.

Yeah framerate issues. Minor inconvenience. And some absolutely awful designs for new mons, but it's still a step up from gen 1's "thing and three thing".

As a pokeveteran, I took on a monotype (ghost) run for my first playthrough. Story was more interesting and the formula was changed without being an insane shift out of left field, and the variation in how and where pokemon spawned was a great upgrade from arceus.

This is, however, the first game in the series where I hated all of the starters.