>>50313464If you think I'm running around the main story with my level 70-90 bros from previous games, you're mistaken.
Many people, including myself, get attached to specific individual Pokemon. We want to keep them and preserve them. Even if we transfer them up and never play with them, we still want to preserve them. Electronics have a life expectancy. Plastic degrades, motherboards break down over time, and connector pins get scratched. My GameCube is starting to have trouble reading discs, and I had Pokemon from Sapphire on there, so I brought them off.
Whether people want to use them for PVP, battle facilities, Amie/Camp, or even just to preserve them; these are all valid reasons to keep the NatDex in every game. "Every Pokemon is someone's favorite" is true. It's also pathetic that new technology can't handle data for every Pokemon, but I've read that GF has historically been dogshit with optimization their games. Hell, you can see it with Double Battles in Gens 6/7.
I know anons like to meme that "lack of empathy is a sign of autism," but part of the fanbase schism really is down to the fact that many brainlets really can't understand that people enjoy the games in ways they don't. The only reasonable argument in favor of Dexit is one relating to the development deadlines GF has to deal with
>TL;DR, other players like to keep their old bros, their reasons do not need to be justified, NatDex should be a staple of every game or at least have all the Pokemon in the code 