>>39957046>why do you think they future proofed the 3D modelsOnly the meshes are "future proofed," and even then they aren't really because LGPE already has updated Pikachu and Eevee ones.
>All they need to do is update the texturesWhich still requires a large amount of work when you have to do it for every Pokemon.
>And not having them does absolutely nothing for the game Except save them development time that they can spend for other parts of the game more players will appreciate. Adding in every Pokemon isn't free. If it were free, they would have just done it.
>When we're not getting anything major in return[citation needed]
>It's a monster catching, collecting and battling RPGAll of which you can still do with the hundreds of monsters in the game.
>Source? 