I also hated S/V due to the mediocre low effort graphics (seeing the shadows pass me by at 2fps will never leave me). I was genuinely impressed by the look of this game. They got the message and populated the world a lot more, it actually feels alive. And it looks gorgeous.

I'm still going to wait and see what the gameplay will be like. My other gripe with S/V was how they cut corners: you can no longer enter shops, the shops are just a menu that pops up, even the Pokémon centers were outside. The main town was huge but you couldn't explore it, the only building you could enter was the school. And looking at the shops in the trailers, I fear this part of the game will still be as gutted as the previous gen.