>>38396383That was 20 years ago when they were literally a tiny indie company, and they were still writing the game in assembly code, which means that, yes, they absolutely did know how computers work.
In-battle forme changes have been a thing since gen 3 and it's genuinely baffling that you think making them permanent instead of reverting after the battle would be hard. You clearly have never written a line of code in your life.
