>>38558853I would say that it's justifiable based on game performance because the smaller amount of joints and bones the model has means that it's less taxing on resources, but Gamefreak are the kind of retards that put models with hundreds of thousands of polygons in the fucking 3DS, not to mention that encryption/decryption issue they have, so the logical explanation is that they clearly have no idea what they're doing and are too stupid and lazy to fix the model even if it could actually be feasible on the Switch.
