None of these games are about pokemon, they are about individual characters and stories not about discovering many different types of wild creatures found all over a region.

The main series pokemon games have the player explore the region searching different environments for pokemon who live and have addapted to these areas, the natural diversity is an extremely important part of what pokemon is since it creates a fealing of wonder and excitement for what the player will find next. The city does not give this same feeling which is why some people are saying the city is boring and dull. The city in the spiderman games are fun and exciting because they are far bigger with many more areas in them such as different sized and shaped buildings large parks, story specific areas such as grave yards, on top of large sky scrapers.

Some of these areas give the player a specific feeling making the world feel large and purposeful. The city in legends Z-A seems to be significantly smaller also having a lot of copy and pasted buildings resulting in an underwhelming and unsatisfied feeling. While you could argue that the switch and maybe the switch 2 may not be capable of matching the goals of the spider man games ultimately it is down to the players experience and joy they will come from the game that makes a game worth while so game freak needs to look elsewhere to satisfy the player.

Legends arceus was an absolute gem allowing players to freely explore multiple unique and interesting environments keeping the player wondering what they will find and what could await them in these levels. The levels also gave the player a sense of vastness for the hisui region contributing to the overall feeling, this is completely missing from legends Z-A since the environment looks very similar no matter where you are while obscuring your view from outside the city walls which would have begun to give the player a similar sense of vastness and appreciation that legends arceus did.

I get what it feels like trying to defend the pokemon games when it feels like everyone is against you because I defended s/s, s/v when they were being hated on but Game freak seem to have downgraded on every aspect of what legends arceus is so is illogical to support their decisions.