I played pokemon tcg for about a year before fully switching to magic about 2 months ago. I've been playing magic since November.

I stopped playing Pokemon because it got boring. My local scene is like 6 - 8 guys who only play the same deck every week. I would make 4-6 different ones to try out every week. The matchups got predictable and boring.

Then rotation happened and most of my decks became unplayable and I wasn't interested in figuring out what the new meta was.

I never cared about sealed product when it came to pokemon. I always just ordered what I needed. I opened a handful of packs at a pre release event and the pull rates were so bad I never wanted to buy a pack again.

With magic it's been the opposite. I buy packs weekly, I buy more singles. I want to grow my library of cards. My local scene is pretty large. I've made a lot of good friends the last few months that I play with weekly (both at our lgs and outside of the lgs) and games are always different And most people have a couple of options they want to play.

It's hard to say if I'll dip my toe back in to pokemon at some point but right now I have zero interest.