Reading through the criticisms of PLA here, a lot of it mostly just seems to be "it's different"... which funnily enough, has been the marketing catchphrase throughout all the ads! "It's Pokémon, but not how you know it". I really wouldn't be too worried about the PLA style of game being what we get completely from now on -- LGPE and Colosseum hardly changed the series as we know it, and the main formula of Pokémon is an instant seller that they're not giving up on any time soon. This is really just Pokémon becoming a more diverse series with a more interesting, unique set of genres each generation rather than being the same formula every single time -- if anything, PLA releasing very closely to BDSP and SwSh remaining the 'core' game which is used for competitions and the like reinforces that.
I hope they do continue with this type of formula and improve on it -- start off with that 'core' game and continually add updates and DLC to it throughout the gen as different types of games get released alongside it. Have a single, solid traditional Pokémon experience alongside other types of games that interest a lot of other types of players or even rekindle the interest of existing fans who have gotten bored of and/or are starting to fall off the current constant formula which shows little sign of significantly changing and giving you different ways to explore the world.
I may think that SwSh itself was a little on the meh side and LGPE did not warrant as high a price tag as it had, but if you look at Generation 8's 'mainline' games as a whole - a traditional experience, a simplified remake with appeal to GO players, a very faithful nostalgic remake, and a completely different spin on the world in an entirely new genre - then what we've got is probably the most interesting gen as a whole yet. It's definitely kept me a little more interested than before and I hope they do similar things in future!
I hope they do continue with this type of formula and improve on it -- start off with that 'core' game and continually add updates and DLC to it throughout the gen as different types of games get released alongside it. Have a single, solid traditional Pokémon experience alongside other types of games that interest a lot of other types of players or even rekindle the interest of existing fans who have gotten bored of and/or are starting to fall off the current constant formula which shows little sign of significantly changing and giving you different ways to explore the world.
I may think that SwSh itself was a little on the meh side and LGPE did not warrant as high a price tag as it had, but if you look at Generation 8's 'mainline' games as a whole - a traditional experience, a simplified remake with appeal to GO players, a very faithful nostalgic remake, and a completely different spin on the world in an entirely new genre - then what we've got is probably the most interesting gen as a whole yet. It's definitely kept me a little more interested than before and I hope they do similar things in future!