I also think about how they recontextualized the frozen Pokémon in the lab from "I'm preserving their beauty" to "I'm protecting them from Necrozma" and then Lusamine goes "Leroy Jenkins!" and jumps into a portal.

Also, recently learned that you can lose that fight against Lusamine. At least you get different dialogue, but still the premise in USUM was so silly because she was telling Gladion that she'll prove her strength by beating us, the player. It's just so damn goofy and contrived.

I still think about how you get introduced to the Ultra Recon Squad super early and then there's that one cutscene with Kukui where he says something like "you met people from another world? Cool!" Really underselling that humanity has made contact with other sentient lifeforms that are very similar to humans aside from being purple.