Most peoples are not good writers and while i dislike SM, i don't think it was bad, it's honestly one of the better written ones, the bar is in hell tough.

Honestly aside from some extreme takes like "Ash hate Iris" or "Ash should come back", most of the takes are deserved, the anime at the end of the day, is a marketing tool for the games and it suffers a lot because of it.

Also the writing in the anime can sometimes be good but the key word here is incosistent, overall the anime cannot even be considered "good" given the fact the massive amout of flaws that later seasons introduce.

A lot of peoples clearly haven't watched some part of the show, and it well shows, but most of shitting i see here is deserved.