A waiting game
Started Pokemon TCG Pocket yesterday.
Unless I'm doing something very wrong, it's effectively waiting game until a player reaches level 3. The waiting is not the worst part though: it's like the first part of the game is literally there to condition you to become comfortable with dark patterns in "modern" games.
The first Pokemon TCG video game I played was the one released on the Game Boy Color. It's a pretty big disappointment to see what they do with Pocket, even though we have now substantially better hardware and software.
Some things didn't evolve.