>>55501972Gamefreak will not somehow become better at making a game if there's less stuff in it.
We've seen that first hand several times. Pokemon isn't shit because the scope is too big, it's shit because Gamefreak is incompetent.
You could double the amount of time they have to work on it, and slash the dex to less than a hundred mons, and they'd still find a way to fuck it up.