>>52515833>it was an iconic piece of hardware unique to that worldIt's just an encyclopedia. Maybe back then when Pokemon was fresh and in-universe there really was just 151 species, but nowadays it's just a NatGeo
tome.It is not special. If they relegated pokeballs to an app then you might have a point, but we didn't reach that yet.
TL;DR: Technology marches the fuck on. Cope.