>>36513757>They can't do quality unless they kill off a ton of Pokemon!And if they do, they're doubtless going to kill off the shouldermon and/or favorites of countless Pokemon fans.
Hell, the first Pokemon immediately put on the chopping block by this very thread were the elemental monkeys (
>>36513760), and there's tons upon tons of fanart of those, from both Japan and elsewhere. I dunno about you, but I don't think I'd draw fanart of something I disliked.
Like it or not, no matter what they cut, they're going to lose fans and make people upset by cutting them- a lot more people than they'd lose by doing something like, I dunno... reverting to a lower-detail art style so they can crank all the content they need to crank in less time. (Do I really care how many polygons are needed to render a Blastoise? No, as long as it looks like a Blastoise and the water comes out of the cannons, I'm fine.)