>>50299432It doesn't have to be positive, it's just what TPCi has decided is the right way to move forward with the franchise, and it's rooted in alola as the initial run.
Every following dex WILL have regionals, and will therefore harken back to alola, meaning it will be as influential if not more influential than kanto the longer that the franchise is left to its devices.
Fags love complaining about Gen 3/4/5/6 bringing about "nu-"/modern pokemon, but the existence of regional variants is the point where they ran out of creative juices and admitted that they need to fall back on nostalgia to pad sales and mass acceptance of new gens.
