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As many have pointed out in the past the way JN has gone has just irreversibly damaged the universe of the Pokemon anime (such as it was, anyway). The preceding 7 generations and 20+ years of anime, at the end of the day the scale of the adventure was still "10 year old boy adventures and then competes in regional tournaments occasionally". SM didn't really break that, because winning one league doesn't mean you'll win another. Even if Ash won Kalos back in XYZ it wouldn't have done it either.
Making the PWC the end-all be-all "these are the strongest trainers in the entire world" and even making Ash participate in the final tournament, let alone fucking win the whole thing was just such a retarded decision from a series longevity standpoint.
I know people like to say it's not any different from them pressing the reset button in the past, but I don't agree with that at all. This was categorically completely different. I don't know if the memes are true about this just being one long apology for the Kalos League loss but this was just too big of an overcorrection. This is without even bringing up the fact that they already used up a ton of the nuclear option fan service things that you'd think would be reserved for a final series (Ash getting Lucario, returning mons, lots of cameos, Mezase Pokemon Master Pikachu climax). You can't just keep doing those things forever.
Anyway I of course know this is a stupid ass kodomo anime and it doesn't matter at the end of the day, but you'd think someone would've brought up this issue at some point in the writer's room if the intent was always to keep going on forever as they always have.
