Everyone's attacking BDSP's poor quality, but here's the truth: BDSP was greenlit as a distraction for Masuda, so he wouldn't interfere and fuck up Legends: Arceus, and nothing more. They knew it would sell so they weren't worried if it'd be another game stunk up by Masuda's insistence on kid-ifying everything and keeping everything exactly as it's always been without innovating anything.

Meanwhile they have their skunkworks team designing the future of Pokemon while he's distracted. BDSP is literally the containment game for Masuda.