>>36998043TL;DR: Probably?
Star Wars has the issue of actually having a change in how its being produced and who its targeting, and that gets reflected in the movie's writing, the comics, and the cartoons. It's changed directors, changed actors, the people who've worked on the originals are literally dying/dead and the new stuff is being made by and for a completely new generation who's parents may not have even been boron when the originals came out. When fans complain about that, they're actually complaining towards people who seemingly don't get how the property was being handled before them and has people working on them who seemingly demonize older fans.
While a similar case can be said for Pokemon, when you get down to it not much has changed. The games still appreciate their fans and have the same sense of "fun adventure in the grand world of Pokemon with you training to be the best like no one ever was", the anime still follows Ash, Pikachu and his group of friends spreading the message of friendship and what not, and even something like Detective Pikahu (both game and upcoming movie) and aspects of newer games show that they value people who've kept up with the series. Of course, that then goes into the arguments of "Well, things should've changed into X or Y" but that then goes into opinion, hence the sense of there being entitlement here or there. No one's saying "you're not allowed to dislike thing", but that just because you said it it has such a strong bearing in how you think the franchise is going versus how it actually is is where the entitlement is.
Course, you have to figure whether you're saying "grown men raging over a children's game" as a majority of pokemon fans or just a sector that you're personally noticing, since I'm sure plenty of Pokemon fans are rightfully cautious but still either appreciate or just don't care about certain aspects of the franchise, since it's so big that you can just do that.
