>>55251437This was just a rebound of Pokemon series as a whole. A new age of Pokemon is coming due to a jump in quality in world building, characters and Pokemon in both SS and SV. However, it was SV that has shown the largest amount of improvement, especially now that GF has finally decided to take a different approach to their characters and as well making Pokemon into fully fledged characters as notably with Ogrepon and Paradox Duo. And as well human characters that are remembered in a more positive light. And as well a leap in quality for Pokemon models, which are miles better than XY-era models that basically butchered the designs of Pokemon.
The dark age was literally the 3DS era where the Pokemon games were at its worst due to rough transition into 3D. Gen 6 introduced gimmicks that would be dropped after one gen, bad remakes, introduced less than 90 new Pokemon per new region and as well bland regions with overuse of old Pokemon and references. And as well the misuse of art budget on gimmick forms that would've otherwise saved for new Pokemon to flesh out the bland regions with poor dexes.
It's only a possibility that gen 10 may be a improvement over SV, on top of new hardware that may offer more room for GF's incompetence with optimization.