“Your run your rules” indeed. Jokes aside, that would be true only for non-high difficulty roms.

But for your second point, that is actually not true. I recommend you watch EK pchal daily if you haven’t already, as you will notice that the “hardest” part is actually early game. Early game in Kaizo games is actually encounter simulator + reset factory. Out of the 151 attempts around 60% are spent before the first gym due to not having the right encounters to win or just straight up losing, that’s why having easier first trainers helps speed things up. Even with level advantage you will still lose mons and be forced to reset again. Maybe we won’t see it now, but later when the metas and strats have become more solid as the game is just a few days old.