Everything you like to complain about in new Pokémon games is absent in Gen 8, so it is objectively the best Gen. It has a battle facility, the new Pokémon are original and cool, and everything you complain about specifically in Gen 8 isn’t even true. It isn’t a “basically unfinished game”, it has everything a Pokémon game should have. The wild area should just be treated as a better Safari Zone, and the dex cut let some underrated Pokémon get recognition. About the complaint that they lied about making new models and animations, maybe they were talking about the models for the new Pokémon and animation for the new moves, idk, maybe that was bad. The old games are objectively worse by just being older, even if it gets slammed for having bad graphics and too many glitches it is still better in that regard than the old games.