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A lot of fans are offering solutions or other options that would help ease the decision of the culling.
Honestly, there's no reason why they can't patch pokemon in. It's the best of both worlds. Instead I feel like they're saving it for the next version or next region.
Also, the culling wouldn't have hit nearly as bad if the games actually showed a vast improvement. Instead the games feel less polished then Sun/Moon. The "improved animations" are not there.
From a business point of view they should have never released this info at e3. They should have instead waited to reveal it when they inevitably show off the new Refresh/Amie for this gen. They gave us nothing to be excited for at e3 and just gave us bad news so how could anyone be satisfied right now?