>>51819129Because they cheesed out on giving her her own personality and instead just recycled Misty, along with Brock for Cilan, to go with the "soft reboot" concept Gen 5 had as a whole. Making Ash a noob and Pikachu a baby with no explanation, they thought they could kickstart a new wave of Pokemania if they took the OS and, from their perspective, just gave it a fresh coat of paint, blatantly dismissing the Shudo effect where game logic always took a backseat to storytelling.
To sum it up, it was a case of old gray suits deciding what their audience wanted to watch.
