>>53821854wrong
While the final part "out of franchise" implies cutting monsters out of the franchise as a whole, that wouldn't even make sense (why would they ever do that exactly? if not for some kind of polemic) and rest of the question makes it clear what the interviewer really meant
"it must have required an incredible amount of work to animate and rebalance over..."
Just as Masuda's answer makes it clear that's also how he interpreted it
"I think one of the joys .. is being able to use your favorite ... all the way through to the newest iterations. So no, I don't think we can do that."
But of course you will try to do such mental gymnastics and create headcanons of your head to try to delude yourself of this having nothing to do with dexit