I actually quite liked the show a lot, even though I’ve been a Pokémon fan for a while now. I kinda miss the old shows humor, but nonetheless the new one is still cute! I think that Liko isn’t actually a bad protagonist, and she would inspire more kids that are shy to be more confident, because they relate to her. Roy is a bit bland in my opinion, but otherwise I like all the other characters as well.
I think this show is just getting a lot of unnecessary hate because fans miss Ash, James, and Jessie (and yes I miss Team Rocket SO BAD) but the show really isn’t that bad. More people need to keep in mind that it’s for kids so it obviously won’t apply to their humor as well as the original did when they were younger :)