There have been so many mainline Pokémon games so close together on the Switch.
I agree. While we don't have a release date for S/V yet, I think it is a safe bet to say that they will be released in November. At that point, three new main series games will have been released within a year. That's just too much. While I skipped BD/SP, having both L:A and S/V this close to each other does not feel good. I really wish they had waited until next year for the new generation to begin. Before the announcement of S/V, I was already fully booked regarding the games I have planned to play on my Switch this year. In fact, I was happy about BOTW2 getting delayed until next year since I wouldn't have had time to play it until later if it had been released this year.
I have never really been a fan of the yearly releases for main series Pokémon games, for that matter. I think they could wait a little longer between each release, like a year and a half or something. Or release additional content for games that already exist instead of a new game, like they did with the S/S DLC. As for being burnt out on Pokémon, I started feeling that way already during Gen 7 and it started for real during Gen 8, despite the fact that I have only bought 2 of the main series games for the Switch. Speaking of which, I guess that my enthusiasm for Pokémon games on the Switch isn't as high as for previous console generations as I have been skipping some games completely, which never happened in the past.
I am looking forward to S/V, but their upcoming release is making me feel stressed rather than excited. I realize that it is partly my own fault for wanting to play so many games in a short time span, but I felt like that a little even before S/V were announced and they did not exactly make things better.
I read through the discussion about Volo and I decided to add some short thoughts on that as well. If I hadn't gotten spoiled on Volo being the antagonist, I would not have seen it coming at all. I think he was a really good twist villain. I haven't played a whole lot of JRPGs outside of Pokémon and I am often pretty bad at figuring out plot twists in stories, both in games and in books (might be one reason as for why I like reading so much), so that was something I liked about him and the story in L:A.
As for the Volo battle, I thought it was okay. I can't say I liked it, but that's partly because I don't like the changes to the battle system in L:A. It is the first game in the main series where I don't enjoy Pokémon battles, and that's not a good thing at all. Before facing Volo, I had grinded a lot. IIRC I had trained one of my teams to level 75 before I battled him, giving me a rather easy victory. If I had been battling Volo in a game with the good, traditional battle system, I would probably have liked it better and I might not have overleveled at all in order to make it a bit more challenging and enjoyable.
Guess I should add an unpopular opinion of my own, also about L:A. I don't think the game is as great as many other Pokémon fans make it out to be. I liked it, but it has a quite large amount of flaws which drag down the gameplay experience for me. If I were to rank the Pokémon games, L:A would be somewhere in the middle, not at the top. I really disagree with it being the flawless masterpiece that many other fans make it out to be, it is definitely not my dream Pokémon game and I actually liked Sword better. But at the same time, I don't think L:A is the utter garbage that other fans make it out to be. I think it is quite good (just not
that good) and fun to play. But still, it could have been so much better. On the whole, L:A has overtaken S/M as my new least favorite main series game in 3D. And to end this with an ultra-unpopular opinion: I still think X/Y are still the best main series games in 3D.
I have some more unpopular opinions about L:A, but I'll save them for another time.