I couldn't care less about Pokémon Masters EX when it released in 2019. That was when The Pokémon Company started to aggressively expand to mobile, one year after releasing Pokémon Quest and launching Pokémon Rumble Rush the same year.
I felt I was beyond those games. I had been playing Pokémon since Red and Blue and felt like these casual apps were made to sell the franchise to new people. For years, I didn't even know what Masters EX was about, let alone that it was a gacha. My anti-mobile bias now reminds me of the Diablo Immortal backlash, since, as a long-time Pokémon player, I didn't want to use my phone because I had the Nintendo 3DS and Switch anyway.
