>>35718776Going from Pokémon to SMT is just asking to get your shit pushed in
Persona is designed to be just "casual SMT" and it still doesn't prepare you for SMT's bullshit
>>35718840I didn't even finish Gen VII
I don't think it's too late for the series to right its course but I'm not too optimistic either, Game Freak explicitly wants the mobile audience and I think it's a lot more likely that the main games will be simplified even further to accommodate them, rather than having game like Let's Go for ultra-casual fans and letting the main series return to at least Gen IV-V difficulty/complexity. But there's no reason to point to this dumb spinoff and say it's ruined forever.
>>35718841The third announcement was for a "core RPG for the Switch" releasing late 2019. That's your Gen 8.
It WAS announced that Let's Go would be used to introduce the first Gen 8 Pokémon, like they did with Gen 4 introducing Bonsly and Munchlax in spinoffs before they properly released, but that's not any reason to drop $60 on console Pokémon Go.