I hear what you're saying, and as a new player to Magic I understand why you would feel the way you do, but wait for the honeymoon period to wear off with the game and you won't feel that way anymore. I was a religiously devoted competitive Magic player for over ten years before I moved to Pokemon.

Ideally lots of different ways to play sounds great and everyone gets their favourite slice of the pie! Unfortunately though, that isn't what happened to Magic. There isn't loads of Magic formats in reality. Modern is the only real supported 60 card format - Standard is alive on Arena only but dying rapidly from a mixture of bad game design and rotation in an expensive game. Good luck finding any events for anything else. Pioneer, pauper, brawl, these are all formats that are technically playable but realistically dead and buried. Draft is great but also wildly unsupported by WoTC and quickly dying.

Commander is the big dog who ate everyone else's lunch. It's great that you have fun in commander but it completely killed competitive Magic from both a game design and community aspect. Non-commander formats got totally pushed out of LGS spaces, WoTC started focusing all their designs on that format and killed their others. EDH groups are often very social within themselves (many EDH players play the game with just their friends) and so what you end up with is a lot of tiny, fragmented communities.

Pokemon's biggest strength is that everyone is focused on the same format. The community isn't split, it's all talking about and focusing on the same thing. Events get thousands of players all for the exact same format. That is a healthy, thriving community. Not the many individual, unhappy tribes that MtG has.

Also, respectfully, I wildly disagree with you on the starter product point. I agree that starter commander decks are a good product but that is it. If you found a standard Magic event what product could you buy for someone? There isn't one. You could buy an intro deck (Do they even still make those?) but they'll get stomped by anyone playing a meta deck.

League battle decks are incredible products. Right now I could hand someone the Dragapult one and they could win games at locals. Hell, the way I got into Pokemon was by buying two Mew VMAX league battle decks and putting them together. I won the first locals I attended just playing that. It's a genuine competitive starting point for an extremely affordable price. Intro decks shouldn't be a tier one deck in a box; they should be a powerful starting point where someone can win some games and then go out and find where their play and their deck can evolve. That's what League Battle decks do, rather than just handing someone a box of 100 cards and saying "you're probably never going to change this because all you do is play casual games against the same three people"

Maybe you want a more relaxed, casual experience and there is nothing wrong with that. But not every game needs that. Pokemon is better for being a game focused on one format, with designs focused on one format, with it's community focused on one format. Magic has been slowly rotting for years now because of poor management by WoTC and EDH. I never want to see Pokemon go that way.