>>54369430Horizons won't ever repeat the ashnime's international financial success of being exported to countless countries and consistently being one of TV Tokyo's top 5 most profitable franchises.
OLM, like Game Freak, like Nintendo, is an entertainment company.
Their main goal is to achieve profit.
By ditching Ash, they are purposefully cutting themselves off of that profit.
Which means that they are prioritizing the Japanese audience here.
Famon gets a lot of hate but he is right in that one of the reasons of the ashnime going on for so long was its profitability and international success.
OLM is purposefully refusing to continue the franchise.