I think they should release it but still allow the other to be used. The fact they are taking out the trading part of pokemon live is annoying in and of itself. It also kind of ruins the entire point of the "Trading" in tcgo. I dont like Live at all.
There are zero modern day digital card games that has in-game trading, and there is a very good reason for that.
Trading on digital platforms is predatory, and hard to keep in control. If you give a loophole, these people will take it and go for a joyride.
Given access to mobile, and the people that will play it. It will even be harder to control trading.
The switch to Live is a termination of the freeloading mindset that has been around for 10 years, and this "hangover" effect that has been long overdue. The longer the behavior has been, the worse the hangover is.
To put it into perspective, I have brought
every single cheap code (less than $10 USD for 50 codes) out there for almost all the sets, save one, and I brought every single meta thing in the last 9 months at highest rarity, including full playset of SR Basic Energies, and I am still are set for the next 3 year's worth of releases.
There is one older set that I have not touched yet, and I will making a video of opening 400 of that
cheap old set during Silver Tempest release to show how
400 codes of any set can get you
every playable in the new set at highest rarity. Trading may be more "fun", but that fun is at the cost of preying on desperate people just trying to get the cards to play. This is not how a digital platform is supposed to be. More than half the people on PTCGO don't really play the game, they are only in it for the trading simulator. This is why you have people that just want fast donk games to get coins to post trades.
And yes, I know, trading and collecting is an aspect to the game. However, I would say in my personal opinion, that the last 2 years of irl scalpers, and social media influencers jumping on the investment hype has taken away what a tabletop game is supposed to be about. It is about time for a reality check, and we can at least have a digital platform that is solely about playing the game,