Maybe they could call it Pokemon Professor or something, where the aim isn't to catch and fight them, but see them all and fill in your Pokedex.
You could play a young Professor Oak, just starting his journey into Pokedemia.
I never joke.
I think that is the root problem right there. Whatever the issue, or topic, some people (on both sides of the fanboi debate) will argue about anything. They just like arguing. They'll argue against someone's point of view just so there is someone TO argue.
I always like to remember the following comic whenever I feel myself getting worked up over a silly Internet discussion.
It's helped me on many an occasion to just fucking leave it.
Yeah, they could have done something which made it look like you were speeding up as you went upwards, or made the distance from ground to space seem greater i suppose.