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Are they aware of hard games? Yes.
Can they make a hard game? Yes.
Will they make a hard game? No.
GameFreak wants Pokemon to be universally accessible, which unfortunately means making it accessible to braindead Japanese Children with smartphones, who quit a game and never play it again the nanosecond they have any difficulty with it.
>B-BUT HARD MODE
No, they can't add Difficulty Modes, either, because those Children also believe they're too good for anything but the highest difficulty until immediately proven wrong, to which they'll instantly drop the game and not even consider a lower difficulty.