The only thing slowing down the console games development is the fact that cronyism is prevalent in the development teams.
The art directions are (almost) always flawless, the characters / environment and pokemons they create are always well received and nobody complains.

But the development team is ALWAYS the issue. The games' graphics and functionnality are all so fucking outdated, it must be the same 10 retarded boomers in commands, Masuda included. And these people definitely do not learn or try to stay up to date with today's technology.
Everything about the pokemon games have always been outdated compared to what existed at the time, no matter the version by the way, it has literally always been behind.

And as long as the retards in charge don't fire eachothers / quit / retire, we won't get any significant change.

Any CEO in their right mind would realize that something is wrong, and that the quality of the games of the biggest franchise in the world is absolutely dogshit compared to some of the most mediocre games of this generation. Any CEO in their right mind would fire the fuckers in charge of the technical aspects of the game and hire capable engineers and programmers who are actually up to date with today's technology and are willing to LEARN.
But they don't, because they're definitely doing some favoritism among the employees and thus nothing ever fucking changes.