The worst year he said
As PvP, ladder got higher and motivated people to get top 25 all the season for the chest/top 25 at the end of season for a chroma+pvp chest+PvP coins.
As a PvE side, there is a lot of thing that raise boss battle (few pokemon that sell for high price like Ralts/Alomomola/Rotom etc...)
Rework of a lot of daillies like celadon/Solaceon.
Forms is something you can dislike or enjoy but if you dont like forms, just ignore them, not like they give a advantage in PvP/PvE.
I used to be a PvP player 12/12 months but I was happy for Hunters that they get something to hunt outside of shinies.
I played every MMO and outside of forms, there is no points in playing others cuz I dislike shiny hunting as a whole.