Limey-chan
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- Seen May 27, 2021
Not necessarily. Pokemon Red could arguably be more complicated since it had its own EVs. Every pokemon gave you EVs in every stat, although they would clearly be imbalanced. I think you could max out all stats on Alakazam because of it. And psychics dominated the whole metagame back in generation 1 :</devils advocate
I love how D/P/Pt changed the whole metagame. Sand veil gave the pokemon 1.5x special defense in sandstorm, pursuit became popular(as well as entry hazards), and the physical/special split changed entire pokemon. Hidden power is now special, which means pokemon like Sandslash are left out because of their nonexistent special attack stat.
I have to admit, I disliked how you could beat the entire game in RBY with an Alakazam, Starmie or even Hypno. GSC re-addressed the whole Psychic thing by introducing Dark and adding a couple of other features to downgrade it a tad (Such as converting Bite to a Dark-type move).
I did like the EV thing though. I would (And still do) spend hours/days on Gold EV training and trying to max out a Pokémon's stats.
People have different opinions on each of the generations and like/dislike them for different reasons. Like I said earlier, each to their own ^^