Can we just admit that Pokemon, as a whole, has always been a bit lacking in terms of visuals for the mainline games?

Like yeah, I know graphics aren't everything, and that being fun is the most important thing for a game and all that jazz. But if you actually played other RPGs it's pretty obvious that Pokemon has always been lagging behind in the looks department, there's GBA RPGs out there, Golden Sun, Shining Soul, Soul of Mana that genuinely look on par with what Game Freak was putting out by the end of the DS era.