Honestly the grind in PRO 1.0 is why i quit playing and am waiting on 2.0 to launch. While i am perfectly fine with grinding the right natures and IV's im not fine with being unable to evolve my pokemon for the story mode (yes i know you can evolve them but not without the exp penalty). There are a lot of things in 2.0 that i wish 1.0 had, like catchable legendaries, mega evolves, flying, no exp increase after evolving and so on but the pro staff wants the game to be grindy and hard and they have the right to make it that way, it is of course their game after all.
And don't even get me started on Johto as a whole, that region had a ton of problems.
TLDR: Pro 1.0 could be an amazing game if some tweaks were made, at least enough to make the new player experience better.