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I'm willing to accept this if the series changes enough to essentially become something else. The whole point was catching them all, finding nice fren ones, and sticking with them. That doesn't need to be the point. But Game Freak has to make a substantial enough new point in order for such a fundamental change to succeed. They're set up to fail. If they had iterated more on new mechanics like more strategic battle styles, contests, seasons, megas, etc. then maybe this could have worked. But making them functional one-off gimics forces the series to rely more on needing to catch 'em all. And if that's not going to be possible, and everything that could have worked to make something that filled catching 'em all's place, there's going to be massive issues for the games going forward.