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> Whitney isn't in the running because only like 60% of people who played will have even reached the 2nd gym leader (extremely optimistically given she's an hour in, but let's assume Pokemon G/S had the lowest attrition rate of all time), let alone lost to her, and it's DOUBLE not in the running because G/S doesn't have the huge sales of RGB so some early trainer in that is guaranteed to have higher killcount by sheer volume of people (can think of Rival 2 but it's out of the way and optional, so probably some bug catcher or Brock). Remember, majority of people are retards with low attention span.
Wrong. Pokémon is an extremely easy and casual game, even someone who isn't into game will get easily reach the 2nd or 3rd gym. The things that people got stuck on in RGB weren't things that killed them, they were progression blockers like having to use Flash, Cut, or get the water.
There isn't really anything like that in GSC until Whitney, and it is a difficulty spike. Either you have enough firepower to kill her before roll out starts doing insane dmg, or you don't. Anyway playing the game casually, which would be most of them considering there aren't difficulty spikes before then, won't.