I'm surprised how much this has upset people, I clearly remember playing Ruby/Sapphire for the first time and realising a large number of the original Pokedex had been cut (but I don't remember people being angry about it). This was later changed by FireRed/LeafGreen and Pokemon Colosseum/XD, there's no reason this couldn't happen again.
I don't know about anyone else, but I've always felt the number of Pokemon was getting a bit out of hand anyway. The only thing that's bugging me about Sword and Shield is the inability to turn off experience share, everything else I'm quite happy with.







