The other day I was thinking about how Redacted because of spoilers reminded me a lot of Maxie and Archie from the Hoenn region's games, which in turn got me thinking about Team Magma and Team Aqua again. I feel like I enjoyed Scarlet & Violet's base game more than that of Sword & Shield's, but less than that of Legends, and I feel like one of the things that could have given the game a bit more of an identity would be if the Paldea region followed in Hoenn's tracks with version-exclusive evil teams of their own. Personally I've always been a fan of the idea that the same region could have multiple teams that are rivals with both the player and the other team(s), and while I know a number of fan games that do this, the only instances we've seen from the official core series games so far have been with the two Hoenn teams, and I guess you could count the two different factions of Team Plasma in Black & White 2 if you felt like it.
So with this in mind, I'd like to introduce Team Scarlet and Team Violet. Or as I like to call them, "the ideas I wanted to see in the actual game instead of what we technically got". The concept and execution of these two new evil teams would have been exactly what you would expect. Much like Team Magma and Team Aqua before them, these two teams would have opposing goals and values of each other, with Team Scarlet believing that the past is good and we need to go back to how things were, while Team Violet would believe in the possibilities of the future and promote progress towards it. Each of those teams could be led by Redacted because of spoilers and create an interesting story dynamic with one of the game's main characters, whose own beliefs would probably have lined up somewhere in the middle of that spectrum.
Don't get me wrong, I thought "this character's" storyline was just as touching as most of you probably thought, but while what we got was perfectly fine, I feel like this could have been taken even further. Maybe "this character" would have some kind of internal conflict because the two team leaders had opposing views and those disagreements were what split those characters apart. Maybe after the events of the main story and/or the DLC, these two leaders would cross paths again, not knowing the fate of what happened to the specific leader in your version of the game you're playing, only to realize it's perhaps late to make amends.