>>43517171XY are no worse than DP, and I love Gen 4. The main difference is that Platinum fixed nearly all DP problems and XY, against all evidence, didn't get Z to do the same.
If you want to pinpoint the exact moment when the franchise died, it was with GO. They threw Z out the window and rushed Gen 7 to capitalize on GO's success and to this day are still rushing out crappy games and a shitton of phone shovelware to try to milk it.
Pokémon is owned by excellent businessmen, not passionate fans or caring developers.
