>>47626762Because pokemon fans care more about gushing over chibified real life animals or ugly flesh clothed furries while anxiously looking behind themselves hoping a teenage girl in the room will notice them over it as opposed to being able to enjoy a monster for being a monster.
Pokemon is the more successful franchise at the cost of endlessly frustrating it's fandom and consistently surging a pissfest over the next annual fakemon that gets the official branding so it can be ok to pretend to like it.
Despite all the shit thrown at Digimon regularly for not having the same design philosophies and a very modest success in the modern day, at least that shit still has fun.
Happily enjoy the 70 overdesigned cyborg dinosaurs with random guns and knives while y'all kill each other over the existence of cinderace