i play pokémon because i like raising cute creatures to be strong
the more gameplay there is for raising cute creatures to be strong, the more cumbersome things are for competitive players who just want to play with their desired teams
letting you farm experience candies with max raid battles or transfer egg moves by just putting two pokémon together in the nursery in SwSh is objectively good for competitive players but also takes all the fun out of gaining experience or pokémon breeding for me
those parts of the games went from challenges in their own right to just facilitatory mechanics in preparation for the challenge of battling