The cuts for the Sw/Sh dex were worse than even the most pessimistic predictions

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PAOerfulone said:

It's truly depressing to see and read how many people are so willing to settle for mediocrity from the biggest multimedia franchise in the world and the one of the biggest video game franchises in the world, 2nd only to Mario.
At this point, my biggest issue isn't even the whole Pokedex and Pokemon getting cut, but the stupid, pathetic excuses/lies that Game Freak and the Pokemon Company are spouting to justify it.
Competitive balancing? Since when has Game Freak given a shit about the competitive side of Pokemon?
Focusing on improved graphics, textures, etc.? The game looks as average as you can get and some points look down right atrocious for today's standards. Those trees might be passable for Pokemon Stadium on the Nintendo 64, but on the Switch? I don't think so.
It's bad enough that they cut out such an essential and important feature, but now they're going to treat me like an idiot by saying it's because of reasons or issues that they either never cared about before or could easily rectify, but they're either too lazy or too stupid to do so? Absolutely unacceptable!

To be gair, Game Freak and the Pokémon Company settled for mediocrity a long time ago. None of their efforts ever matched Red and Blue in sales, or the success of the early Pokémon anime and movies. Their demographics, although loyal consumers of all their mainline games, get older and older even though these games are targeted at middle-graders/tweens. Even when it seems like they're doing something right, their shy attempts prove to be mediocre or fads at best like Pokémon Go, Detective Pikachu, the PokéPark etc.

Or... perhaps we do live in the best of all worlds and that's just what would inevitably have happened to the franchise after it peaked. Although it's hard not to imagine what could have been otherwise when almost everything these two companies have done conspire against it.