Yeah pretty much. Mega evolution stats are pretty much Legendary tier.
But I felt that with the loss of a held item and the limit to one per team kept it balanced.
Im probably not parttaking in VGC's this year due to time constraints, but if I was I wouldnt be too mad about the mega evo's and hidden abilities ban. But it does feel a little annoying. We wouldnt be allowed to use anything brought from outside the KalosDex, and the new hidden ablilities and mega evo's are mostly what Gen 6 brought to the Metagame table. So stripping new mechanics essentially makes it last year's VGC's but with a few pokemon missing and a few pokemon added.
As for not wanting to deal with new things, there is a lot of time between now and the 2014 VGC's. That is enough leeway to do suspect testing (The VGC tier in Pokemon Showdown exists for a reason) to get a better feel of what is OP and what is not.
tl;dr:
I feel it's lazy and foolish to just ban everything new, and that is how real OP things fall through the cracks and end up sweeping the tournaments.
Bowser's inside story really left an "eh" impression on me.
The M&L games dont have a lot of replayability, but they are clever in their designs, so I feel I have to get the next ones and see what they came up with, especilly if they cloaim to delve into Psychonaughts territory.
Maybe when the price goes down to the low 20's.
the number of users decrements by one, obviously it no longer lists me, then it does list me again when it reconnects me and I fail to see anything said whilst I'm disconnected, but once I'm back in everything's fine until it does it again