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I used to agree with you, but not anymore. It could be said that shinies used to be too difficult to get. Perhaps I can agree that certain methods of shiny hunting can result in a shiny a bit too easily, though. For instance, when I SOS chained for a shiny charjabug (so far the only time I've deliberately tried to chain for a shiny via SOS battles), it really didn't take that long to find a shiny. Sure, I had to catch three of them before I finally got a timid one like I wanted (wonder if modest is the best nature for an agility vikavolt in hindsight, bah), but the time it took to get three of them was less than my masuda method shiny hunts usually take. And my masuda method hunts generally don't take a horribly long time, because ranya seems to love me. So yeah, if there's a problem with shinies being "too easy" to obtain, it doesn't lie with breeding for them. Breeding for shinies can still take days. And breeding is the only way to get shinies for a lot of pokemon in a certain game, and it's also the only way to guarantee a nature and to a lesser extent hidden ability.It almost feels too easy to find shinies these days altogether. What with increased chances of finding shinies in the wild, various chaining methods, the shiny Charm, the Masuda Method.
It’s not an exaggeration to say that I’ve had more shiny Pokémon in Ultramoon than I had had in Gen II-VI as of November 2018.
...then I got a Shiny Giratina and Rhydon in Platinum and a shiny Drilbur in Black.
Shiny Giratina I reset for, and shiny Rhydon and Drilbur were random encounters.
I am not counting shiny event Pokémon in this, either, because those require zero effort.
I wouldn't say ability capsules, power items, and bottlecaps make things "too easy" at all. They're all things that should be in the game, because if they weren't, things would be unnecessarily unfair. EV training really shouldn't be somefin that's too much of a chore at all. As for ability capsules, do you have any idea how infuriating it would be to breed shinies only to have them have the wrong ability? This can still happen if you're breeding for a hidden ability, I've had to breed two shiny sentret and hoppip for precisely this reason. Getting a pokemon to lv. 100 to use bottle caps on them is no easy task, and getting perfect IVs for a shiny pokemon (especially a mixed attacker) isn't an easy thing to do. I don't think the exp share is broken either, though I think that it should be reserved for the post game. At least you can turn it off.