"I feel like we're far enough into the series that some evolution mechanics could use some "touching up""

PS: Realize this became a bit of a rant by the end, sorry for that lolFor instance, I get that most new Eeveelutions were introduced to coincide with some new mechanic. But while I don't think friendship should be going anywhere as a mechanic, even one used for evolution, I think we have enough others that use the mechanic at this point that we can afford to turn the whole Eevee line into a uniform "stone evolution" set. Let Espeon, Umbreon, and Sylveon evolve with Sun, Moon, and Shiny Stones respectively. They've shown they're willing to do something like that with Leafeon and Glaceon now evolving with Leaf and Ice Stones, so it's time to make the whole set uniform if you ask me.We could also afford to cut back on the trading evolutions, especially the "trade with X held item" ones. Again, I'm not against the idea of trading as an evolution mechanic but I think some of these could be trimmed down now that we have newer methods that make just as, if not more, sense. For instance, Steelix and Scizor could be done with the "level up while knowing a Steel-type move" mechanic now. With all the Gen 4 new evolutions (Electivire, Magmortar, Rhyperior, etc) it could just be "level up while holding the item." Given how they mostly push those particular hold items to the late game nowadays it'd still work without making things unbalanced or anything. And then there are the ones that have hold items that don't really make sense for the evolution like Politoed. Change those to evolve with a Shiny Stone or something.And I'm not thinking just simplifying the annoying ones. There are a few older ones that just have basic "get to X level" ones that could use some updating to make them make more sense.Like make it uniform across ALL fossil Pokemon to have the "level up while knowing Ancient Power" condition.Make Paras have "level up while holding a Big Mushroom."Magnemite/Dugtrio get "level up while having 2 other Magnemite/Diglett in your party." And don't tell me that one would be too complex or anything. We got freaking Runerigus, Sirfetch'd, and Alcremie so Magneton/Dugtrio would be outright simple in comparison to some of the stuff they come up with.Anyway, what do you all think? I'm curious what other ideas people might have. Would updating be a good idea on a wider scale? What are some other ideas you think could use some updating? Would you be against evolutionary updates? If against, why? via /r/pokemon https://ift.tt/33YQD8R