Ok /vp/oreons, call me a shitlet for openly admitting to liking TV Tropes here, but we need to figure out something once and for all - does Game Freak actually care about how they're producing the series?

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/CreatorsApathy

This is the trivia trope people use to describe works whose creators have admitted to not putting in anywhere as near as much effort as they should have.

Anybody want to join me in compiling a list of things that Game Freak members have said about their design process that may fall into the aspects mentioned in this page? I'm starting with pic related since it's one of the more infamous examples.