To stay relevant gamefreak is trying to kill main series pokemon games on the main console because main console development is more than their tiny incompetent development team who have had money thrown at them for so long for developing on weaker sub-par consoles can handle. They are sabotaging sword/shield intentionally so after it's rated poorly, gamefreak can be like "see we were right all along, mobile is the future of pokemon!", and then point to Pokemon Go and Pokemon Masters in the hopes that nintendo and creatures inc will agree with them and let them continue developing pokemon for subpar systems like mobile which is way more in line to what their incompetent shitty team is used to. When the switch came out, gamefreak even said they thought it would fail because mobile is the future or something along those lines. It's a conspiracy I tell you. They hate home console development.