I think you're putting too much faith in consistent power scaling. If "Ash shouldn't be ready for these people" mattered it would work both ways and he'd have breezed through Sinnoh after winning the Battle Frontier instead of having his worst W/L rate there.
Plus OI and BF were in retrospect...
I'm not coming down on one side or the other regarding the reserves being used, but last time they were brought back in numbers it was just for the league so them not being used so far isn't necessarily too strong a mark against, especially since we had an episode in JN reminding people/telling...
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