>>35838828>improve the series by removing any pokemonYou do realize that would piss off so many people right?
Let's say that I was the head of Game Freak and ordered the removal of midnight form Lycanroc, a Pokemon that people like to shit on. Yes it isn't good in competitive and lot of people despise it but there are also people that genuinely do like it, and that also applies to many other Pokemon as well. They would get upset if it got removed from the series. What about Farfetch'd, a literal duck? That Pokemon has fans as well and they would hate to see it removed. It doesn't matter if a Pokemon is obscure, shit in competitive, hated, or liked by a neo-Nazi furfag YouTuber that has a hate-boner for Smogon University; it's forever part of the series, and removing it would be a betrayal to fans of the series and a PR disaster as that would lead to everyone worrying that their favorite is possibly up next for the chopping block.
