Why do people obsess over the difficulty of Pokemon games? They're all braindead easy. ORAS was okay but I actually prefer the originals in this case. And yes, IGN is stupid with reviews.
Well, personally, I was dissapointed with the difficulty in XY.
If it's hard to beat someone, it means more, you actually feel like you've accomplished something, the game is a challenge. But if there's no challenge, the game just carries no gravity at all. Even in terms of the story.