Gen IX is 2022, regardless of how good, engaging or how long it takes you to finish.
The machine doesn't stop, they've proved time and again, they don't care for the manchild "let's take a year off, because I can't handle them releasing a game-a-year, now I'm 22 instead of 12" mentality and frankly, had they WANTED to burn 2022, wanted to take a year off, they'd have released Legends in November and gotten that year gap. But they're falling over themselves to shit that out in January, meaning they want November free for something else.