Why is Pokémon such a cultish fanbase? Why is it, when an obvious mediocre game is released SwSh, Pokémon content creators like Joe Merrick and Tamashi Hiroka actually turn against the fans instead of criticizing the developers? In what world is that a healthy behavior? Think of GTA Anthology, which was a compilation of remakes of old GTA games; why did it get such flak while fans were actively criticized for disliking BDSP — a single full price inferior remake than anything Rockstar had included in the anthology package?

Pokémon is strangely reminiscent of Star Citizen, where the fanbase is an actual cult suffering from sunken cost fallacy. The difference is that Star Citizen has ambition, even as newer industry titles produced in much less time and with smaller budgets (say Baldur's Gate 3) create actual gold standards of respect for fans that Star Citizen could never achieve. Meanwhile Pokémon is proven time and time to be developed by the worst player in the market right now, with decades of interviews by Masuda and others proving that Pokémon's lack of quality is by DESIGN.

Is Pokémon the only game where content creators actually attack the fans for wanting change?

Is Pokémon the only game where there are 'Gen Wars' — which is natural since it is the only franchise where the next title is never an improvement of the previous one, an excuse for fans to attack each other?

Is Pokémon the only game where developers actively tell players "to do not have big expectations"?

Are fans to blame for Pokémon's failures?