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In ORAS all you have is the Battle Resort which is just a copy paste job of the Battle Maison from XY. It's juts a battle tower clone again with 4 different modes. On its own it's fun enough but having the expectations of a battle frontier really hung over ORAS' head. I have to ask how many people even completed the battle maison in XY or ORAS yet still complained about lack of battle frontier.
All of this spiel is just to say that while battle frontiers and gimmicky battle facilities aren't really necessary for a Pokemon game to be good, their inclusions need to be presented well. Battle Maison could have worked if they just spiced it up a little.
Add in more than just the single/double/triple/rotation modes. Hell, the PWT had that and I doubt people did more than just the standard singles.
Presentation really goes a long way in these games.
Also another thing I feel is important that people always call out in terms of Pokemon game quality is the region. People give BW1 shit for being linear but people love BW2 despite it basically being just as linear. You're not really doing things out of order but the way you progress through the towns is different enough from BW1 that it feels very unique.