>>37626264Maybe, just maybe, LGPE was a stopgap to get something in on the Switch while they work on gen 8. Maybe, in that case, it's not worth it to have a designer spend an entire day building a complex 3D model for one little detail when there's an alternative that just takes a few minutes.
Maybe that's why they reused Kanto instead of spending months designing a new region.
Maybe, 23 years ago, it was worth it to draw those skeleton sprites because a) it only takes a couple hours and b) Red & Green was a giant project that required that kind of effort and attention to detail.