the game isn't hard hard, it is just a bad designed hard
at least my initial did not stop obeying me when I reached level 25 more or less after crossing the first route
That was what i intitially thought, too.
But the more i played and looked into it, the more i'm sure that everything is designed by reason.
May be luck or coincidence, but there are so many things that just work together once spotted and used.
Like certain pokémon with a certain lv that learn certain moves at a certain later level...
Or the items, you can find, you can click on. The moves you have access to, the trainers you can beat.
There's a lot of thought that was put into all of this, at least in my honest opinion, that is.
Took me about 1:41 hours to finish the current content - didn't faint (unwillingly) and didn't run into 'too much grind for no reason'.
I do like the take of that you actually need to know how to build a working team and how to use moves against certain types. Something, most people never learned. It's not hard, nor bad designed. It's made for actual pokémon players. Sure, there's a certain challenge, but without it you'd just run through the entire game within 20 minutes, tops.