>>41273460for a number of reasons:
>2d sprites are expensive and time-consuming to do properly>going back to 2d would be a waste of all the future-proofed models that creatures made (even moreso than the dex cut)>charging $60 for a 2d pixelshit game would not go over well with normalfagson top of all that, game freak's 2d games also looked like dogshit compared to other games on their systems. many of the games didn't even have animated sprites in battle. even pokemon's own spinoffs ran circles around the main games aesthetically. you are clinging to an idealized, nostalgia-driven vision of the past instead of reality.
