Investigate pyramids, sail the Nile, surf the Sahara sands, catch Pokémon in the savanna, explore the Congolese jungle, climb Kilimanjaro, trek through the cloud forest, find diamond caves, swim with sharks in South Africa, an isolated lost world inside an extinct volcano filled with fossils/prehistoric pokemon, a Pokédex full of regional forms, cross-generational evolutions, cryptids, trickster gods, and more.

Why does Game Freak hate money? That would be an easy spinoff to make, but "muh woke whining"? Just avoid using human characters; the only ones are the fully customizable main character and a Rotom AI as Professor replacement. Replace towns with Pokémon villages; no one will complain if Marowak has slightly darker or lighter skin or if Rillaboom committed war crimes against the Infernape minority.