What you say would hold more water if (stay with me here) EVERYONE was unable to beat the game. There are over 20 pages of comments so I wouldn't ask you to go through all of it, but I will reiterate; People know how to beat the game, people have figured out the mechanics, and this game was NOT made for, nor catered to casuals. What you're essentially telling me to do, is to scale back the difficulty to the point of mainstream Pokemon games, which I detest.
"The reason is simple; they are many, you are alone."
I disagree. Once again, The variety of Pokemon you can find in Town and on Route 1 are more than enough to beat the route. And the sheer amount of EXP you get for every battle essentially puts you leaps and bounds ahead very quickly. Once more, I will make it clear that it is virtually impossible for me to tailor the difficulty of the game to suit everyone's needs. If I made it easier, people who like the challenge will complain.
"If you insist on the enemy being so broken on the basis of "matching the player", you have entirely dropped the ball on the balance between player and NPC. Your idea is certainly a pain in the ass... And sadly, no matter your intent, if you don't carefully consider how you build the game from the base up and just slap such broken gimmicks onto NPCs, folks will call it out."
They are free to call it out. Everyone will have an opinion. If they don't like the difficulty, they can just y'know, not play the game. Once again, they are not part of my target demographic. You remind me of those mums and dads in the 90s complaining about the bloodiness and violence of Mortal Kombat when it is clear the game was not made for them.
"Because you can't really change the minds of the players when you yourself fundamentally do not understand why Pokemon had such items in the first place... Nor can you understand that the majority of players rarely used them, as again, they were more of a crutch left for actual kids."
I am not here to change ANYONE's minds. I'm just here to provide a product geared toward a certain goal, made for certain people. That's all. It is not complicated.
All that aside, I apologise if I sound very flustered or annoyed, because I essentially am. Would word my comments better if I were in a better state of mind.