>>34158259No, their official explanation was that it wouldn't make sense for new Alolan forms to spring out of nowhere since they were "still in Alola". I guess ignoring the fact that it's an alternate universe from SM, and the fact that new Pokemon like Ampharos and Larvesta appeared out of nowhere.
Really the true reason is probably that regional variants are being moved over to the Switch game, and the designers only designed new variants for the new region.
