Yes, yes I do. With all the hatred and fiber in my being! I also think they are far too easily shaken and fragile when it comes to natural disasters (also most as if they are looking for excuse to abort or derail an actually edgy plot arc that's more akin to the games, instead of some repetitive filler fluff). I mean, they actually banned the Dragalge episode over an incident that happened in a country that had nothing to do with them. Oh and anyone remember the last time we saw Porygon, or the first time we ever saw its evolutions in the anime? Exactly.
Overall, in the plan of the writers, Ash would rather make random friends and interact with
any Pokemon, than put in the necessary effort needed to win a league conference. Meanwhile, the Team Rocket Trio are the most recognizable antagonists, and everything will
always be their fault, and any conflict of the day will
always be resolved by kicking their buts, .....day, after day, after day! Pokemon can hardly be recognized as an anime anymore, and more of Japan's version of a Saturday morning Hanna-Barbera cartoon show.
The writers are so kid friendly, they're actually afraid of things that could possible advance the plot like a sentient Big Bad Pokemon with truly wicked intentions (and not just confused, misunderstood, or enraged), Missingno., EV training, rebellion against the Pokemon League Association, N's original role in the games, Ash & co.'s interaction with Giovanni or Lysandre, a full 6-on-6 battle between Ash and Giovanni (you know, the one actually incharge of Team Rocket), the identity of Ash's father, the appearance of Red (the
real Red), and for all we know this generation, Ash's chances in Mega Evolution and the Kalos League. These writers even pussed out with Darkrai (he could've been Arceus' evil counterpart, but they demoted him to being Cresselia's match).
But as for the rest of the corporation, they're more interested in the anime as some product-selling cashcow. Overall, with only 72 new Pokemon and ORAS coming up with even more Mega evolutions, there's going to be ever
more filler fluff, with Clemont scolding Bonnie and Team Rocket blasting off again! Also, look at the current Summer Camp arc.
To be fair regarding the lack of Big Bad Pokémon, Island of the Giant Pokémon did make clear that there was no such thing as an evil Pokémon. Plus, that foul-behaved Togepi in DP is probably the closest we'll ever get to a truly evil Pokémon. And anyways, you have to blame the games for Darkrai being Cresselia's counterpart and thus being "cloyster," as all the Anime did was follow what the games naturally implied with the Crescent wing and the Pokedex entries (and even the games, Pokémon Mystery Dungeon aside, strongly implied that Darkrai itself isn't malicious so much as it traps people in nightmares as a defense mechanism to ward off threats).
Though with that said, I do agree with you overall. And somehow they think making the main girls in the anime nothing more than pieces of meat (sorry, "eyecandy") is even remotely acceptable, especially when they are A. children (remember, with the exception of Brock and possibly Tracey, most of the heroes are 10 year olds at most, children in other words), meaning they are truly skating the line regarding promoting child pornography, and B., the entire anime is geared towards kids, even by Japan's standards (honestly, Transformers: Kiss Kiss was similarly geared towards little girls, yet the hentai overtones of that anime were so overt even Japan had to cancel it, yet somehow Pokémon doesn't get into any serious trouble despite its former director freely admitting on that PokeBeach article back in 2010 that they literally viewed all the girls up to that point as being disposable sexual fanservice objects, which given the implications of that would have resulted in at the very least a severe decrease in ratings, maybe even a huge lawsuit and the writers potentially going to prison [as even in Japan, child porn is extremely illegal])? I know a few Japanese women who absolutely hated the Female Anime Stereotype depicted in Japan such as the ones depicted in Love Hina and Battle Vixens, or the girls from the episode Princess vs. Princess. About your complaint about Team Rocket, what's even worse is that, BW and initially a part of Kanto aside, Team Rocket hasn't actually done anything truly serious (and even then, BW did it in the absolute wrong way). If you're going to make them recurring antagonists, even comical ones, at least make sure they are actually a threat so stopping them every time actually MEANS something. Hey, the Joker was a comical antagonist in the DCAU, which is actually somewhat light and soft yet still somewhat adult, yet even on his worst days, he was proven to be a genuine threat constantly, despite his comical nature. And honestly, the Hanna-Barbera cartoon shows comparison is unfair, since at least Scooby Doo actually does give variances to its antagonists (plus, many of their antagonists have been proven to be genuine threats anyways). Heck, even Gaston, who BTW was the most poorly-written Disney Villain barring possibly Governor Ratcliffe from Pocahontas, was an actual, genuine threat by the ending of Beauty and the Beast. It speaks volumes that Gaston, who is essentially closer in characterization to someone like Lawrence than an actual main villain despite being the main villain, and even being a Team Rocket-style villain, did a far better job at actually being a villain than JJM are currently.
And I also agree strongly with your comment about the leagues, which is even worse since the entire POINT about the regions IS the leagues, and advancing to the next level. Say what you will about Johto and its long-ending fillers, but at least Ash actually advanced in rank, so the long wait was actually worth it. Honestly, the only other region to actually have Ash advance as of right now is Sinnoh. And based on the collapsing ratings, most kids and fans would actually agree with you there.
And they also are willing to derail anything that actually is from the games, regardless of whether it's actually edgy or not. Take for example the Pokémon World Conference from Generation V. That was something actually from the games, not to mention would have given the PERFECT opportunity to actually bring back Misty at the very least, and for a short period of time, if not to the main cast. Heck, even actually give her some closure they failed to give her back in the end of Johto when they thoughtlessly forced her into a gym, and forcing her to sacrifice a goal she strived for, just to have an excuse for "more eyecandy." Yet they outright ignored it, despite it actually being something from the games, not to mention it is something that isn't even that edgy anyways. To make matters worse, they brought Dawn in even though she had absolutely no business being in Unova to begin with (I don't recall there being any coordinator contests in Unova, do you?).
The Dragalge episode's banning was even more shocking considering that they literally had no real reason to ban it. At the very least, they should let the people actually in that country ban the episode when it hits the airwaves there, not ban it in Japan, which has absolutely nothing to do with that country's disaster.
Not to mention fairly recent episodes and films seemed to ooze with left-wing propaganda, such as the Zoaroak movie. I mean, honestly, they even made one of the heroes of that movie an expy of Michael Moore, that hard-left propagandist posing as a documentarist (it's not even supposition as Bulbapedia made that very clear, I think one of the interviews even made that clear as well).