Did Pokémon ever “lose you” for a period of time?

I’m a Pokenut, 33 years old, and grew up with the game… but Pokemon lost me for spell and I’m wondering if anyone had a similar experience.

I love everything except B&W, B&W2, S&M, and USUM— so outside of X & Y and Alpha Ruby Alpha Sapphire… Pokemon lost me for a huge chunk of 2010-2017.

I hated the legendaries, the starters, and almost all of the pokemon on Gen 5. IMO almost fully forgettable for most of the new 156 portion of the dex.

Pokemon 641 through 649 on the Gen 5 dex… I thought were incredibly dumb and felt more like Digimon than pokemon to me. That really, really was something I didn’t like.

Am I the only one who has experienced anything like this?