I don't expect it to bomb or review poorly, and I don't want it to do those things because I have a vendetta against the game. I want Game Freak to walk back and look at a lot of design decisions and change them for the better, which also would require stopping a yearly release cycle. None of those things will happen without backlash.
Yup, same. Because it's Game Freak, I worry even tons of backlash will somehow fall on deaf ears, but yeah.