>>43162487Masuda completely unironically once said in an interview, that he wants each gen to have certain features that will always be unique those games.
Meaning that, even if it's general gameplay mechanics like this or following Pokemon or sometimes even straight up QOL enhancements like being able to set the difficulty, communicating during WiFi trades or PSS in general, will for the most part never make it into new games because of some fucking dumb reasoning.