>>37568582It's not about the designs, it's about the state of the game as a whole.
If they're still being dead silent about the game, it's very clearly not ready to be seen period, which is honestly very concerning if it's been in development for so long.
>>37568588LGPE literally exists because Gen 8 couldn't be released last year, and you have to remember GameFreak's been juggling between multiple projects of all sorts since whenever they received their Switch Devkits, which is probably when they began development on Gen 8, meaning this bastard's been in the works since as early as the end of XY's development.