He's trolling but I was honestly thinking the same thing playing Scarlet and Violet.
You'll see a family of Pokemon hanging out in the overworld, with the 'mama' or 'papa' evolved Pokemon looking after the unevolved 'baby' Pokemon, then you'll kidnap one of them, confine them to a poke ball when they were out enjoying nature, force them to fight for you, and then Stockholm Syndrome them into thinking you actually love them, not because you actually do, but because you need to up their friendship stat for things like evolutions, dodges and critical attacks.
Pokemon is such a fukked up franchise when you really think about it.