>>52459087...What, exactly, gives any indication it's more than a decade or two removed from the Alola games, where Blue Oak is a young adult, and biotech is already at the point of a single corporation shitting out Legendary-tier 'mons?
We're in the full Information Age now, we have streaming stars. Iron Valiant being a contemporary jackass's work would be mainstream about five minutes from somebody bringing one into town.
And more importantly, "gen 1" is irrelevant in this comparison because what you're pushing is WHOLLY confined to the Anime continuity, which has not touched SV yet. One need only point to the Shrink vs. Digitize argument for the continuity fuckfest this invites.