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> "It's an unimportant feature!"
Masuda said himself that the loss of compatibility during GSC created bad memories for players. They went out of their way to make the VC titles Bank compatible, to rectify those issues from more than a decade later. And it's not even a big deal at this point, those Pokemon are all available in newer games. But they did it anyway. Even giving those Pokemon Hidden Abilities as a bonus.
Tell me why they would do this if no one cared? It's a monster collecting game, the biggest of them all. They understand that.