for what it's worth, i sunk 800 hours into it, but a large portion of that was shiny hunting, haha. did so much egg-hatching this generation compared to any other before. @_@
i understand the hesitation, though. haven't really touched Shield much since Crown Tundra was released. played a bit of it, explored the new dynamax adventures thing which was ok, but i was just burned out in general of this generation, i think. if i had more ppl to play with though i'd probably get back into it. o: