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Masuda said in GameInformer last month that the Pokemon were cut because putting them all in every time was (somehow) keeping them from adding new gameplay elements, and so that was why Pokemon were cut.
Ignoring that I still don't believe this excuse any more than I believed in "High quality animations" and that nonsense, what new elements in in Sword and Shield even are there? Is there even any post game besides doing more raids?
