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Are you intentionally misreading it? Its quite clear that they meant to say that Trainers with a Pokédex can use it as an id but it isn’t mandated since a large majority of trainers don’t have one. And other trainers (due to not having a Pokédex) have other forms of identification.
Brock didn’t have a Pokédex and was a trainer. Same for Misty.
There are also other trainers who got their first Pokemon without a professor’s intervention.
That we don't see a Pokedex, doesn't mean they don't have one.
For example: We haven't seen Sawyers Pokedex, but he clearly has one.
Whats the point in having a Pokedex in the first place, if you don't need one. That doesn't make any sense.