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Pokemon can function just fine without a focus on humans or character development. If SM's story ended on a more generic tone with Guzma trying to blow up the Pokemon league or something, the game itself would still be great because in the end, what matters most is the gameplay (i.e quality of life improvements and battles.) If the story was fantastic but the gameplay was complete ass like D/P, the games would likely be universally loathed because, as I said, gameplay > story.
I'm pretty sure I remember hearing Ohmori wanting to go as far as heavy romance in Pokemon and if FE: Fates is any indication, we should keep Pokemon and dating sim elements as far away from Pokemon as possible.
I like Lillie, and SM's story was great, but pandering to people who in actually want dating sims allow the devs to get away with god awful writing that gets eaten up so long as the player gets a "You're now married!" message at the end.
It also brings the worst kinds of posters, imagine Chiken-chan shitposting amped up to the nth degree, except its with every character. Actual discussion of the story would probably be impossible because every thread would have mass waifuposting, but that's neither here nor there, since /vp/ is shit anyways.
