>>38517728Because they focused on other aspects of the game instead. Gates to Infinity and Super kind of brought them back in a sense, but they're also different. You can still enjoy them in Rescue Team, they were nice, but definitely not essential to the game.
Actually, the way Rescue Team implemented them was really bad, so at least I'm glad Explorers improved on the system.
>>38517757Exactly. Plus constantly having to manually add your Pokémon to the team every day.