Having two versions of a game with minor differences is a shitty business practice but most people gloss over it since gamefreak have always done it (don't even get me started on 3rd versions).

Imagine if mario odyssey released with a counterpart game called mario pilgrimage with some different kingdoms and moons that were only attainable in one version of the game, people would call it out for shitty business practice.

Gen 9 needs to be one single game rather than two shit games with the most minute differences, if gamefreak drop their cutesy 'we're pokemon so it's ok that our games are mostly shit' belief then maybe we could finally get a good pokemon game. Either that or TPC partners with another company and we can watch GF die.