>>58722971because a lot of the parents in pokemon are implied to be dead.
SOMEthing happened to the generation immediately before the protags that led to a LOT of deaths.
Damn near everybody is an orphan, raised by their grandparent(s), or single parented.
You've got like what, Birch and Norman and Joseph Stone? Peony with Penny and Peonia. Nemona's parents are apparently rotomphone board members.
The only ones we see are all VIPs. I've seen some people speculate in a major war. Surge specifically mentions one after all.
My best guess if that's true, is it happened as a result of the rapid technological advancement after humans began to study pokemon instead of fear them. According to Drayden, pokeballs weren't a widespread thing when he was a child, and given Kurt's age, I'm willing to bet he's an expert on Apricorn balls not because he specializes in revived techniques but he was a craftsman of that time who learned it firsthand.
Meaning PLZA tech level and pokemon-integration-level is likely less than 100 years ago.
And since that time, they've invented space travel, point-to-point teleportation technology, time travel, dimensional travel, revivification of entities eons dead, rediscovered lifeforce to energy conversion to break thermodynamics, hard-light projections, cloning and extreme genetic engineering, the creation of life from digital code, however the fuck TMs work presumably some kind of brain upload the same way EXP share works, and anti-gravity.
Oh and some people have started developing psychic powers, occult curses, and superhuman strength.
Not to mention there's been major instability events like criminal invasion of major corporations, multiple instances of ideological terrorists awakening ancient myths, and an alien invasion.
Meanwhile some towns still barely have electricity.
It all seems very destabilizing.
