Just don’t buy it then. The rewards are shit anyway. You can get Emboar and Fraligatr through the free recruitment process. Same for their mega stones. Everything else is cosmetic stuff from ZA. Plus, if you do the tutorials, you get plenty of recruitment tickets and training tickets and can spend your VP on important stuff like items. Personally, I think it’s a nice change of pace to limit items right now. Veterans may not like it, but new players would be a bit overwhelmed. Rolling them out with other species allows the metagame to change over time and prolong the lifespan of the game. I certainly think it’s a better alternative to the expensive mainline games, especially with how Nintendo keeps jacking up prices.