>>45648280The game was already rushed to hell to begin with and most of the dev time was spent in graphics since mememax is one of the lowest effort mechanics in the franchise and SwooSh could fucking brick your Switch on its first weeks of release. If you take into account Game Freak's history of programming anything into a game, they would've needed at least another year to copy and paste the old pokemon from the old games.
Just what happens when you become the core of a billion dollar franchise of which is demanded to maintain a constant momentum by releasing a new game every two to three years and you are sumoru indii companii prease understand.
I have no idea why they can't just hire more people, though.