What if every Stage 2 deck had a Drakolak?
Is Pult dominant because it's too strong, or is it because other decks are too inconsistent and volatile? My discontent this format is mostly due to just how frustrating some decks are to play. They often feel like they lose to themselves, rather than getting outplayed, due to poor consistency from not drawing what they need (like team rockets Mewtwo having difficulty finding special energies, starmie, ) or they have really weird matchup spreads (Alakazam not being able to do anything into TRM2 or Zoro/Chomp when grass decks are also popular, Lopunny into Chomp/Luc).
One of the things I miss the most is on-field, in-engine consistency pieces, Drakolak being the shining example. Be it draw power like Lak/Gold, energy fixing like Garde, searching like Pigeot/Miraidon, being rewarded for, and assisted on the way towards, an "ideal" board felt so nice. The dundun engine feels really good in some decks, like Lopunny where there's decent synergy, but otherwise feels like a band-aid to a bigger problem. Obviously we have a couple others (N's Zoroark, Gabite, Kang, Thwackey, Lunatone, Zam), but they really suffer from the volatile match-up spreads unlike Pult, which is another issue with the format I really dislike.
tldr; I want more decks designed like Pult rather than a Pult "nerf"/waiting for it to rotate out and having future formats follow the current game design approach.