Spending an hour in the pokecenter every time we enter one because some sizable amount of goons thinks purposeful sabotage will somehow recreate gen I's magic doesn't help. We need naturally occurring challenges, not manufactured ones. And on that note hourly democracy isn't helping, despite otherwise being nice for keeping drama down, because most of the puzzles and required menu-based management tasks are now trivial rather than things that can spawn lore and humor with either tragedy or triumph (or just getting stuck like the Rocket Hideout and all the fanart of the Rockets and Giovanni being like "wtf is this kid doing?").
There are so many reasons this isn't working out the same as Gen I, and the lack of a break is probably the biggest, but the pokecenter crap annoys me and while I know we all appreciated the democracy change, I'm starting to see it as quite the double-edged sword.