What happened Yesterday proves that the real problem with this franchise is not Masuda, but the community itself.
This faggot literally called people to shut up and deal with it. He didn't care about the backlash even among the Japanese community.
but despite all that, there are a lot of people still defend this with all their might not realizing this isn't a healthy Corporation-Consumer relationship and they just want people to go blind and consume products to please Masuda's wallets instead of being a satisfied fans and consumers

Pokemon is literally the most cancerous community on this planet and don't blame Masuda for trying to make money as much as possible because it's his job, blame Joe and his sheep and the cringe ass Poketubers who turned into full 24/7 Pro-Gamefreak activists just to convince people to eat literal shit while getting paid.