I think one of the worst and more depressing aspects about this whole mess is how it caused a lot of the bigger names in the Pokemon community to really show their ass. I lost all of the respect I ever had for Serebii when he posted some garbage tweet on Twitter using that disgusting and ableist autistic screeching meme to mock everyone who had a problem with the cuts.
Really fucking sucks too cause one of the first major online autistic communities I ever found and took part in was the one that was on his forum well over a decade ago. It ain't exactly fun to find out that the dude who runs one of the first places you ever found any form of acceptance is more than happy to throw you and that community under the bus.
Not suprised. I got into arguments with him when shit went down, and he immediately used the "toxic, harasser fandom" card to dismiss the complains of the fanbase.