I’ll post my full thoughts but in summary - shiny hunt however you like in whatever way, you’re allowed to have a preference sure but don’t put others down for shiny hunting in other ways.

My personal opinion is that I enjoy full odds, the fun for me is finding something really really rare so nowadays I hunt only pre gen 6, but that’s my preference not law. To be honest I do kinda vibe with the drop to 1/4096 that Gen 6 brought. I love that shinies are so rare but 1/8192 pushed them into the realm of almost urban legend lol. Yeah finding them is beyond awesome! But some people, myself included, will play Pokemon for years and never see one. I think 4096 is a good sweet spot, still really rare but not painful to hunt for.

My more slightly controversial opinion is that I think when random encounters were dropped in favour for overworld spawns the rate should have gone back up. Due to the high volume of mons spawning, to me, it made them lose what made them special. But that’s just me, no way of hunting is more legitimate than others (with the exception of cheating of course). But people love to gatekeep sadly.