With the rumors of old Pokémon being buffed (or nerfed if the Gengar thing is true) and this generation's Pokémon apparently having shit stats as far as we can tell, is it possible that Gamefreak is just testing this generation's Pokémon before they buff/tweak them in the next one in order to avoid a case where one or two Pokémon ended up overshadowing the rest because they were too good?

Maybe Gamefreak don't want a Talonflame 2.0 that overshadows all of its fellow Pokémon from the same generation because they made it too strong. I wouldn't be surprised if there's artists working for Gamefreak who were upset that their designs were barely used because some of the other Pokémon ended up being too strong.

Or am I just being a hopeful fool?