Hopefully auto-save is a thing you can turn off, though considering save is still an option it probably is. I also hope there's a better way to soft reset than LGPE as that took way too much time.
Just going to ignore the animations armchair gamedev discussion rehash #349 because no matter how hard anyone tries you're either preaching to the choir or falling on covered ears and there's better things you could be doing, although I will say I'd like the flying (literally) Pokemon idle animations from Amiefresh Camp to be used for battles more than the ones currently used. I know why they are, it's a visual indicator that Earthquake won't work, but I still miss some of the classic idles that still exist (Zapdos, Xatu, Celebi...). The sleep animations would require a lot of work to get them battle ready as the "wake up" for those is usually long and "cute" which doesn't really work for battles (as well as leading into the amie idle which every Pokemon has instead of the battle idle).
With the news that Ditto is back I'm eagerly awaiting the GTS rush of trying to get international Ditto with good stats. That's always a fun period and will be required for most pre-Home team building, although I won't be trying too hard for Gen 8 utilities as my synchro Pokemon is confirmed (Mew, but Gallade is too for the less-obsessive) as well as Ditto itself now being confirmed. Hopefully the niche the legendary Pokemon will occupy is figured out quickly this time around so I can get to SRing for the right stats sooner than things like Tapu Koko and Lunala last time.