>>48297753I said STARTED ACCUSATIONS of it being one. People legitimately thought that all of the past-gen Pokémon in gen 8 were exclusively going to be the popular ones. This also led to all of the Maractus shitposts like pic-related.
Normally a trailer for an upcoming Pokémon gaming having popular and marketable past-gen Pokémon in it wouldn't lead to accusations, but with the Dex cut controversy it did because people thought this meant that Game Freak was cutting less popular Pokémon in favor of Lucario or Charizard.