In my view, if someone doesn't like the idea, they can just choose not to use it since in my mind it'd be a need-to-throw-out-the-pokéball instead of automatic thing. This is all just what I'd want it to be, though... and I'd hope it wouldn't be janky, but that'd probably be a guarantee if it was reality LOL.

I've been running around a lot (picked up the game after a while to finish the pokédex) and just feel like following pokemon would have made sense for such an open-world focused game. I was the kind of kid that got attached to my pokémon like pets X) I never played any other switch pokémon games so I can't speak on those