>>36817873Gen 1 didn't have Held Items, Abilities, Breeding or Pokemon past 151, but they still bothered including them on top of adding an entire Mini-Region heavily based on Johto for FRLG.
In fact, if they tried pulling "it's literally Red/Blue with better graphics", the franchise would've been left in a really fucking poor state because believe it or not, people actually had standards and were still in the midst of their despair over not being able to transfer their Pokemon from Gen 1-2.