The TM thing is about the post-game and online battling, not the difficulty of the main campaign.

A toggle would mean they cater to both

Kind of the opposite. Having it as a toggle would make it more fun for a wider amount of people. 

I am utterly baffled it can’t just be a toggle

Yes, heaven forbid players want a perfectly fine and usable feature from previous games to continue to be perfectly fine and usable, rather than being taken away for arbitrary reasons.

So... what’s the issue? Why is making it a toggle, which allows the player extra choice in how they play, which is what the Pokémon series has emphasized virtually ITS ENTIRE EXISTENCE, a bad thing? Why is constantly holding the players’ hand throughout the entire adventure a great thing that should be celebrated?

I was already “meh” on these games, but this just drives my interest even lower. I simply do not understand why having a fucking toggle is too much of a hassle considering it was perfectly fine in Gens 6 and 7.

There was so much backlash to the backlash to Sword and Shield’s dex, and it frustratingly distracted from the actual issue of the game choosing to go backwards in game design and saying that you have no choice but to have your hand held.

Personally, I just think we should stop arguing about a feature that’s been un-togglable for a whole mainline Pokémon game.

They should replace him with Billy Porter.

“...will be replaced by a ‘generic likeness’”

They should just have a toggle. I don’t get why this is so stupidly hard for them. You can even turn it on by default just have a toggle. Putting Pokémon in boxes and taking them out is a giant PITA when it should be a toggle. Like turning battle animations on or off or adjusting message speed. Just add an “EXP Share…

This isn’t a new complaint. This goes back to PLG and was brought up again in SS. I think it’s VERY reasonable for there to be an option to turn it off for hardcore fans.

I hate learning how stupid so many celebrities are.

“See, it’s cool, because only 99.99999% of people using emulators are using them illegally! This article is obviously for the one out of a million people ripping their ROMs!”

Metroid Dread wouldn’t exist without the company. The employees are a team; no one of them could put together Metroid Dread or any other game on their own. And it’s the company that puts them together to do so. The company isn’t just its leadership, it’s the employees, too.

The fear of rampant piracy isn’t... really a thing.

Nintendo is allowed to have a different business model than the one you prefer.  That does not justify pirating a game on day 1 of release.

First of all, if you’re going to advocate theft as a method of combating the evils of capitalism, I feel like there are far more worthy targets than Nintendo. Second, the hurt sales won’t affect Nintendo nearly so much as it will the passionate fans of the Metroid fanbase who have waited far-too-long for more…

It's not less illegal because the scale might not be as large as some think.  And it doesn't make this article any better.