>>50635794>>50635866>>50636141Basically this, different teams, different ideas, diferent directors with different design philosophies and different schedules.
I also deluded myself in thinking that PLA's improvements meant an upward motion in the quality for future games and that this new direction was here to stay but that's not what's happening, Game Freak is only taking what made PLA marketable and intriguing and spinning in a cost-effective way that uses less effort and is more conforming to their tiny self-centered scale of development.