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Trade, yes. Evolve and breed, no. If anything, those cases should be "Evolve XXX, Friend Safari" if a compromise is necessary (a separate parameter would be better, imo), because it's always been about "the easiest/quickest route" to obtaining said species in-game without outside aid, and next to evolving and breeding, Friend Safari is not the easiest method of obtaining if you don't have the Friend Safari for that species (you might as well equate it with "trade"). (And the quickest/easiest route has always been: capture -> breed/evolve -> other methods.)In cases where Pokémon would have to be traded, bred or evolved, Friend Safari overrides them.
You can cite White Forest all you want, but those were version exclusive species, and ultimately the Friend Safari is closer to the Dream World in terms of obtaining pokémon than White Forest is.