>>55304827The things they 'borrowed' from YW didn't improve the games in the slightest. If anything, it made them worse, because GF can't adopt concepts of other franchises without excluding everything that made the concepts appealing in the first place.
I want them to do better with what they have, but you're right, they only know how to imitate. Gen 10 will probably be bases around building settlements in the fucking outback in Pokéstralia or some shit, gating story progression behind development milestones while simultaneously making the gameplay loop for improving bases tedious, missing the whole point of Palworld, in which the 'grind' is apparently one of the better aspects of the game.
Just to note, I haven't played Palworld myself because I don't like survival games, but I have friends who've been playing it since launch and that's the gist of what they told me.