Despite the unfortunate optimization of the game (and experiencing one crash that set me back an hour.....), I really liked Pokemon Violet! Especially the story. It felt different than most Pokemon storylines, where in those you just want to become the champion n everything else happens around you (SWSH, mostly - while you DO end up saving the world from eternatus or what have you it didn't feel like that was the whole like. plot personally?) I dunno, Sc/Vi just felt different.
I do wish that they weren't so heavy on saying you could technically do whatever you wanted in whatever order, because levels do not scale for anything. If they'd said "you can do these three plots in whatever order you want, but it's recommended you follow this path for each of them" then it'd be fine, at least to me personally.
I'm hoping they release a patch or something to make the game not run so crunchy because the game itself is phenomenal! It probably needed more time in the oven, but I really enjoyed playing through it.
On another note, I've found four shinies so far! Three oldies, one new gen guy. It feels very lucky especially since I don't have the shiny charm yet lol