so, on further inspection:
wonder trade and gts are great, and the premium plan letting you trade 10 and 3 at a time respectively is actually really helpful
trading with friends seems to be kind of funky, and room trades straight up have not worked for me at all
I would strongly recommend...
pokemon home is out now
I haven't bought the premium plan yet, but I have more than enough gold points to buy a month and dump all my pokemon into storage. I think I'll wait until I finally get a copy of Black 2.
https://www.serebii.net/pokemonhome/features.shtml
Pokemon Home's inner workings have finally been released.
Notable features:
Trade with people via mobile phone
GTS is in the mobile app
"room trade", which sort of scrambles everyone's pokemon and trades them
"home points" convert into BP at a...