Regardless of whether you think it was good, bad, fun, or shit, there's no denying the massive influx of normalfags into the franchise past this point - normalfags who will happily eat up any slop placed in front of them so long as it has a popular brand attached to it. Sure, the series is alive financially, and likely will be until the end of fucking time, but Pokemon as it once was is nothing more than a corpse being dragged along by normalfag CONSOOMers.