>>31523627Pokemon isn't trying to compete with Yokai. Yokai is sputtering out, and even if it weren't, GF is too complacent, lazy, and arrogant to believe they were ever in danger, or do something about it.
It would make ense for GF to act in the way you have described. It really would.
But you are forgetting something major.
Gamefreak is fucking retarded.
Gamefreak decided it would pay attention to competitive this gen.They nerfed burd and mega-mom, de-speed creeped gen 7, then forgot about backwards compatability and thus invalidated an entire genertion, except a handful of legendaries dave from accounting statted, and dave didn't get the memo to make everything slow and weak. Gamefreak regularly removes features people like because fuck it. Gamefreak is not intelligent, they do not behave intelligently, they do not even behave in a way that approaches sane and rational.
