They made it into in A button simulator lol.

I only ever played DPP and BW/2 a long time ago, but I then happend to jump to SwSh when it came out and it literally became a live joke between my sibling watching me play to see how far we could go through the battles by only mashing the A button.

I think we made it to like between the 7th and 8th gym before I had to actually change my attack/pokemon using the c-stick.