>>39310648The scary thing is that's exactly what I thought of when it came down to my initial thought process, and that's before the speculation/theories involving pop-ins that Dynamax'd mons are their own files.
Personally I haven't dug into the files of the games personally, but I have been dying to know if shiny pokemon are their own separate files too, or if Game Freak isn't so far out of touch with the concept of texture files being applied if the shiny checkmark box is ticked.
I'm honestly afraid to do the research because of the implications it means if I'm right.