>thinking spinoffs count to the overall consciousness of pokémon fans
The only ones who give a shit about them are kids and the autistic manchildren that populate the internet. And seeing as the autistic manchildren that populate the internet are not important to Game Freak and the current crop of kids are having Terastralisation shoved in their faces atm, it's not looking hopefull they make a return, save in ILCA's XY remakes, naturally.