Masdua will say literally anything to justify that game's design choice or lack of features or something, then walk back on it later and do the coontrary.
Pokemon didn't have 3D models in Gen 5 because Gamefreak didn't wanna make them, Pokemon didn't have textures on their skin until Gen 9 because Gamefreak was too lazy to do them, etc. I know for a fact there's a Masuda interview about him making up some bullshit as to why Pokemon were untextured.
Same deal with voice acting, Masuda said he didn't want to "mess up people's imagination of what the character sounds like" in spite of the anime, and later on Masters, being right there, The real reason is GF is too lazy/incompetent to also have VO work in their games. Masuda will literally just say fucking anything, if you've been following the series, you know this already.
