>>37574169So? Answer the hypothetical. Otherwise you're being inconsistent and disingenuous. The hypothetical is just to check your consistency, but considering you can't even answer, it seems like a case of "Well I don't want then to be Gen 8 so they aren't, hmph". Well I don't want them to be either, but they are. We can't just keep changing how we define a generation. Compatibility is the most consistent definition as every other definition seems pretty weak at best.
Remember when it was just "New Pokemon=New Gen? "
Now people say Well New Pokemon AND new region
Gamefreak will break that next too and then people will reach to find a new definition