But the kind of people that are that not invested in games don't really mind losing all the time anyway, because even with the braindead stuff they lose all the time.
Except if there is no loss condition anyway.
And besides, guess what's happening now, you have autists driving around town with 6 iphones in hand getting 20000 points worth of pokemon getting all the gyms and all those casuals are losing anyway, whoop.
And there is no way people aren't going to get bored of this system in a few weeks.
Pokemon has never been really hard anyway, you can just fight random pokemon and level up and pick yes to all the ****ty stat boosting moves and replace all your good moves and still get pretty far.
And then they can battle eachothers ****ty pokemon and have a blast.
Pokemon doesn't require you to max out your EV stats or whatever to have a good time unless you specifically fight the autistic "competitive" people.