Final team, I think the most enjoyment I got out of this game was the different setups I could do with each team member. Everything else just felt tedious. I'm not a fan of open world Pokemon, and I honestly much prefer the set random encounters in just regular patches of grass. Instead, I found myself, on multiple occasions, running laps around specific areas over and over again just to find the one thing I was looking for, made extra arduous by the smaller Pokemon that would tend to be show up in inconvenient spots, making it real damn difficult to see them in time.
Battles are also unnecessarily long, with the removed options of turning off animations, as well as removing the Set style of battle, which ?????? I cannot for the life of me find any reason as to why they would do that?? That combined with the slow text boxes, mid-battle dialogues that don't pass until the opponent has completely finished their talking animation (still unvoiced), and the animation that plays every time a Pokemon terrastalizes.
Pokemon Scarlet & Violet are just slow as shit, and it makes the entire game a chore. But at the very least, the battling, outside of the new mechanics (and several of the mechanics that they removed for whatever reason), is still fun. I enjoyed my team and what I could do with them, even if most of my wins were from toxic stalls and weather abilities boosting evasion. 6/10. I really don't see myself coming back to it any time soon.