>>39824329This.
People have noticed the decline to mediocrity that's been happening, but it was just mediocrity, and no one was expecting much from Gen 6 or Gen 7. So when they came out and were just "ok", it was relatively ok.
It only really started getting bad per se with USUM, they barely changed anything and were full price. Even some of the more casual demographic disagreed with their existence.
LGPE was the shitstorm that really started the fire under our asses, and it raised the bar for Gen 8 even higher.
The Switch as a whole is seen as a platform for change and an increase of quality with other Nintendo games Mario, Zelda, Smash Bros, Fire Emblen, Xenoblade, Splatoon, all of them used the Switch to further themselves as IPs and for some of them even switch up the core of their series, people expected similarly with Pokemon. And with the whole idea of LGPE being the in between, the appetizer before the main course, the promise of the core Pokemon game that long time fans have been asking for coming out in 2019 was giving a lot of hope for the fanbase.
Then comes the reveal met with ludicrous amounts of hype, leaving everyone waiting for more, the 3 months of info getting people an anxious and more expectant, then more info which brought the idea of the Wild Area which helps with the fact that Pokemon has been stagnating for 20 odd years, and then E3, insane shit like Hero and Banjo being shown off, the FE3H timeskip, BotW2 and all the other shit I've forgotten, and then finally it's Pokemons turn and we get them running around in a lackluster Wild Area, a boring demo, and a treehouse that announces that POKEMON are being removed from POKEMON.
All the expectations, hope, and hype withered away and were replaced with the frustrations of 6 years of mediocrity, which led to the huge shitstorm we got.
The frog got chucked into a boiling pot of water and started screaming after it hopped out.
