This new license journey is bad
Forcing players to purchase characters in a specific order is absolutely disgusting. In a game like Pokemon Unite, who you choose to bring into the battle makes the biggest difference and this new system essentially prevents that from being an option.
I have many gripes in regards to this game but I took the time to make this post here to bring more awareness and visibility to this specific problem. Players should be able to acquire any character without any prerequisites. Forcing a prerequisite purchase in this way makes no sense. The only way it would make sense is if you wanted to acquire a mega pokemon to which the prerequisite would be its normal counterpart. Or maybe a Pikachu prerequisite before you can get Alolan Raichu.
Forcing this type of progression is not conducive to helping grow the player base. Please change this system as soon as possible because given the way it currently works, I simply cannot recommend this game any longer to anyone else.