Pokemon should return to its roots

No, I'm not talking about game mechanics, or the number of pokemon, or any of that other fanboy nonsense.

I just started replaying Pokemon Blue today (Having spent over 160 hours on Soul Silver, and about 60 hours on Platinum), and something I realized... battles are a hell of a lot harder in the gen 1 games! Maybe it's just because I'm not very far in (have 6 pokemon, completed the first gym already, highest pokemon is level 13 pidgey), but the fact that I'm not 1-shotting everything with Super Effective attacks makes the battles more difficult.

Thoughts?

I just very recently finished playing through yellow again, because i just dug it up out of my closet, and i definitly agree that the generation 1 games are the hardest ones out there, especially as you get further into the game and all of the gym leaders suddenly have pokemon that are 5-10 levels higher than yours.