Oh my god two pages of replies and I don't have the time to read all of them aaaaah! I'll just reply to one thing.
Naze Youka said:
also, the reason they MADE iv's in the first place was to artificially increase playing time. they introduced it so that people will spend hours trying to get the perfect iv pokemon, boosting pokemon interest, so that people will still be playing pokemon and buying pokemon products all the way into the next generation.
Going off of my somewhat limited knowledge of the subject, I highly doubt this is true. From what I know, IVs were a hidden mechanic that was only accidentally found when someone hacked the game. They were never meant to be discovered and exploited, merely to be a secret background thing that made sure every mon was unique. So the notion that they actively put this mechanic into the game to encourage the creation of a trend where masses of players flushed their time down the drain to crunch numbers like there's no tomorrow is very unlikely.
I mean it DOES artificially increase playing time if you really have nothing else to do with your time, but I somewhat doubt they anticipated that development.