Garbage
Learned
I'm going to pick this up despite the cuts because I'm a pokecuck. I also enjoy competitive play (both Smogon and VGC) and love all the changes GameFreak is making to simplify the teambuilding process: basically, just spend in-game money to build your teams instead of trying to catch specific natures, EV train, etc.
"I like smogon but I'm happy that the vast majority of popular smogon picks or pokemon that offer fun niche strats are gone"
Why even bother investing all that time and effort into a new team when it's highly likely none of them will even be supported in the next game? Unless you've got a team of 6 Charizard you don't know if that team will be available in 1-2 years time.