What do you consider the modern and the classic pokemon gens?

For me I feel like up to gen IV it's the classic.
All gens leading up to gen IV were like going up a staircase in what kind of broadness events the player has to experience.
Gen I was grounded and the story climaxed with a man-made atrocity that is Mewtwo.
Gen II had the player deal with a folklore legendary creature of stories passed down from people of Johto in the forms of Lugia and Ho-oh, ancient but mortal creatures.
In Gen III the player face God tier beings that were crucial in shaping the world, Groudon created the continents, Kyogre - oceans, Rayquaza - the atmosphere. These being were here before man and are basically gods from a prehistoric time.
In gen IV we peaked with what the player had to deal with. We had to encounter beings that came to be along the universe, beings that shift time and space, as well as God and Devil himself! Where do you go from there? There can't be anything greater, so that's where pokemon peaks and has to reboot to keep going.

And thus we enter the modern gens
Gen V comes back to folklore Gen II tier stuff with Reshiram Zekrom and Kyurem
Gen VI tries to push Life and Death with Xerneas and Yveltal, but that kind of break the mythos as it doesn't fit anywhere with what came before
And gen VII seperates interdimensional travel from time and space, as it introduces creatures that do just that, while normally these domains should only belong to Dialga and Palkia

Everything past gen IV feels like the expanded universe in star wars, rather than something from the original intended storyline

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