>>35772578Or, what if.
What if there's more to it than that.
What if... they're sneakily hiding Gen 8 Pokemon in there.
What if they're basing Gen 8 pokemon on these beta concepts, like Twins and Farigiraf and Animon and Panshii. And this is to get us hyped when we see them.
So instead of going "Aaaugh this design is horrible" we'd go "AAAAAAA I RECOGNIZE THAT"