>>29907437IT holds the franchise back and makes it more difficult to adapt and grow because there's a huge section of content devoted solely towards appeasing a group of people who are highly likely to not buy the game or even care in the first place.
As long as Gen 1 gets this degree of hardcore favoritism, the franchise will never reach it's full potential. Gen 5 has it's problems but I'll always applaud it for trying to create a brand new pokedex from scratch.
