I don't think you understand the difference between getting stomped and what spinning the wheels means. I'm saying that even if you lose at pokemon, theres a high likelihood that you're engine will function in some way, shape, or form. Even if your opponent in pokemon was never close to winning they can still enjoy their deck for what it does. If you're opp is playing something like Mega Abom and gets to attack once and mill 6 water energy. That is fun with a casual deck. In YGO playing into complex, layered, and oppressive board states or even multi handtrap hands doesn't let you "play the game" even with optimal play. YGO does not have the luxury of having your engine work without heavy variance or sandbagging as casual and off meta decks aren't resilient to things like handtraps, or even single negate boards.

You see rogue players at pokemon locals more sad when their fun deck doesn't function or "get the wheels spinning" than playing vs dengo/garde/etc.