>>37599959LGPE made the wait that much more insufferable than if we had a gap year, because LGPE, even in spite of being made out of 99% reused assets and likely being produced in a few months, still took some semblance of time and effort away from GameFreak's development of Gen 8, just like everything else between whenever they received their Switch Devkits (as early as the point XY finished development, I'd imagine) and now.