Alright so every game from this point forward we need to include somewhere on the map
>somewhere to find a growing list of fossils
>a rock to swap Deoxys forms
>a specific grassy stone to evolve Leafeon
>a specific icy stone to evolve Glaceon
>a specific “electric zone” for Magnezone/Probopass/Vikavolt to evolve
>a specific snowing area for snow evolutions
>a specific raining area for for rain evolutions
>a room with appliances for Rotom’s forms

Ok we are done oops jk we have items now
>a laundry list of very specific hold items most of which do absolutely nothing but trigger the evolution, most upon trade
>a bunch of legendary specific hold items
>18 plates that are meant to be used with a pokemon that has always been an event exclusive
>an assload of mega stones
>other fringe single pokemon use items like Stick and Lucky Punch

Alright finally the labor is do-
>still have to put in an ever growing list of attacks
>but don’t forget the extensive list of attacks only a single pokemon can learn
>sorry just because no one uses Conversion on Porygon you still have to make an animation and sound effect for it

Was Game Freak slowly creating their own nightmare way back in 02? A ticking time bomb that couldn’t be ignored forever, eventually leading us to the overextended sweeping changes to Sw/Sh? Could anything have been done to avoid this?