Only doing beginner matches could get tedious, so you can mix it up
Also, Special Summons are free so they dont take up your 1 regular Normal Summon/Set during your turn, and can even sometimes be done during your opponents turn
Item cards are played from your hand, then you follow the instructions on the card itself, before placing it on your discard pile
There werent many Pokemon that changed type and they are pretty canonically fairy (Clef line, Toge line, etc) so I dont understand the issue
Trishula allows you to deal with 3 threats all at once: banishing a card each from your opponents hand, field, and graveyard, right when its synchro summoned