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TPCi, at the end of the day, are a business, and businesses are there to make profit. If they can cut costs as much as they can while making as much as a proper mainline game makes them, they're going to just refuse to give a single fuck about the players in favour of easy dough. Of course, you have dishonest shitstains like Masuda who try to bullshit people into thinking they're doing it for other reasons but what can you do.
Millions and millions of oblivious kids will see pikachu on the box and demand their mummy buys it, TPCi makes billions of profit and Gen 8 along with every other fucking mainline game in existence from now on will be Let's Go reskins.
Such is life.