>>53454800It's a 77 day difference assuming interviews are correct where Sword and Shield started right after Sun and Moon released and Legends Arceus started right after Let's Go.
But it's definitely more than just timeframe because the developers were clearly different and priority were in different areas.
Still, the combination of the development time and being handled by people who normally get stuck with Updated Versions that only lasted such a smaller time compared to base generation games, is what causes such an beauty of a game in PLA.
Long story short, Morimoto and Iwao deserve to be given full scale projects cause they are clearly doing better than Masuda and Ohmori