Opinions on Eon Ticket and Japanese vs US Events

What are everybody's thoughts on how they're distributing the Eon Ticket and how event pokemon are released in Japan vs the US? Myself I'm fairly disappointed and irritated with how they're doing the Eon Ticket because while in some ways it seems cool, there are many people who will likely NEVER obtain it. While it stinks that they might not get some particular pokemon in that game I can kind of understand that but what really is the irksome element is that they would seemingly tie in the new "soar" mechanic of the new games into the Eon Ticket. Hence "No ticket, No Soar ability" as far as I understand it. On the topic of the Event pokemon I think it seems pretty dismal on the US's side of things comparatively. Sometimes it seems the US even lags behind Europe. I mean dang, Japan is getting a shiny lev 10 Jirachi. Shaymin is another event they're getting over there which is one of the pokemon that in my experience is almost impossible to find and verify as legit anymore. But I can kind of understand that since in Japan most of these event giveaways are all to promote things like the Pokémon Center they have there and it's just a whole lot more popular in that sense then it is here so there's not that much pokemon stuff in the US to commemorate such event pokemon.