I disagree with some of your key points, though agree with many of your others. "New Locales" is something that has to be treated carefully. It could be a good idea, but there would still have to be a good balance of them.
I agree in your call for a reduction of Team Rocket's role. They were better when they were just another part of the world, just like your shops and your pokemon centers, not a group trying to dominate it.
I also agree in a call for an end to Event Pokemon. Only event pokemon i've ever had i hacked to get, back when i cared enough to buy a Brain Boy (Made by Pelican, tailor-made device for modding RBY and GSC), and got Mew and Celebi. I'll grant that with the advent of WiFi, these events have become far more accessible (pop over to the local Toys R' Us, pull out your DS, and go), but i would prefer it if the Event pokemon were triggered by in-game events. Insane events that you had to go to great lengths to fulfill.
Like with Celebi, Celebi could have appeared at the shrine to it at Ilex Forest, but only under certain conditions, that sort of thing.
Overall, i think the next step that Game Freak has to take is to build a tie-together game for Pokemon, before making a jump back to the basics. They need a game with Kanto, Johto, Hoenn, and Sinnoh, where they'll publish four concurrent versions, each of which starts you at a different region, and has different gym/elite four progressions, where you can go all over the world and gather all 493, and where the latter stage of gym leaders all have pokemon in the 80's and 90's, that sort of thing.
Monster Hunter: pissing me off since 2010.
