IMO, the community failed with Tera if it ends like this. Or if they finally decide years later that it was problematic. Either way, it simply isn't good for balance. I know this is an unpopular opinion. But if you play the wait and see game until many of the folks who were against it are no longer invested, it's kind of a self fulfilling prophecy. To be clear, I'm not even sure there would have been enough support even without that given how generally popular the mechanic is. It's just that waiting as long as we did doesn't help that. I will say less since the rest all been discussed to death before.
Either way, gen 9 has insane power creep and is nearly impossible to tier from a balance standpoint. The new trend of pay to win DLCs don't help, either. The DLC metas have been... interesting. Regardless of what we think of all the decisions made, many wouldn't find the meta enjoyable because GF gave us quite an evolving mess this gen.
Personally, I can't really even disagree with most of the decisions made. Outside of Tera and the Gliscor ban, I don't think there was anything I have strongly disagreed with. I didn't love the sleep decision, but I understand it and am glad Iron Valiant is still in the tier. I guess I was against banning Cyclizar over Shed Tail and Houndstone over Last Respects because it seemed obvious to me the moves were the problem. That played out the same way in the long run anyways. Really reaching the bottom of the barrel now. Not sure there was really anything else. Like I'm not sure there was a single even slightly wrong pokemon ban, in my personal opinion, that I haven't mentioned. If anything, we need more bans after Gouging Fire because we are keeping Tera.
I say all this to say gen 9 is rough. Smogon is in a no win situation with this one.
Either way, gen 9 has insane power creep and is nearly impossible to tier from a balance standpoint. The new trend of pay to win DLCs don't help, either. The DLC metas have been... interesting. Regardless of what we think of all the decisions made, many wouldn't find the meta enjoyable because GF gave us quite an evolving mess this gen.
Personally, I can't really even disagree with most of the decisions made. Outside of Tera and the Gliscor ban, I don't think there was anything I have strongly disagreed with. I didn't love the sleep decision, but I understand it and am glad Iron Valiant is still in the tier. I guess I was against banning Cyclizar over Shed Tail and Houndstone over Last Respects because it seemed obvious to me the moves were the problem. That played out the same way in the long run anyways. Really reaching the bottom of the barrel now. Not sure there was really anything else. Like I'm not sure there was a single even slightly wrong pokemon ban, in my personal opinion, that I haven't mentioned. If anything, we need more bans after Gouging Fire because we are keeping Tera.
I say all this to say gen 9 is rough. Smogon is in a no win situation with this one.