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There are a lot of things from the beta I wish were kept, but this is one I'm glad they managed to change.
Completing Johto, then going back to basically the full place from Red/Blue was an amazing feeling. Imagine being promised Kanto all game only to have this mess of a squashed Kanto at the end.
God bless Iwata with his 1337 coding skillz fitting Kanto in.