Trading is an abomination

How is it the Pokemon company comes up with this hairbrained scheme. The idea of trading is simple, and as I was bummed out to find out not everything can be traded, I was understand as to why. However this trading system is downright an atrocity to the nature of a TCG. It's clearly not player oriented, and just shows that it's a downright cash grab. I'm sure the idea behind all of this was making players melt down anything that might be worth trading so they have to open "potentially buy" more packs

I've been pretty consistent with opening my two packs a day and am quite displeased with what they've come up with for a trading system.

What are your thoughts?