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I personally saw a lot of potential in the series. I built up some reasonable hopes for it but they weren’t met (like some Pokémon getting the bare minimum of focus as compared to previous series), but they weren’t met. So I see no reason to build up overtly optimistic scenarios when JN has given no hint to ever act on them.To me, the fact that they haven’t had many appearances since their captures (actually, Dragonite has had quite a few though only one or two were significant), points to the possibility of seeing them more in the future. There’s plenty of upcoming battles and things I could see them being useful for. Though, I don’t personally subscribe to the pessimistic outlook some people have with JN as a whole, so maybe it’s easier for me to be hopeful.
I don’t want to end up in a cycle of continuous disappointments. Looking at what JN has done now, we have passed a THIRD of the series and some Pokémon don’t have more than one or two appearances. One third is enough to form a trend. Battles maybe? But "development" as in character arcs is an expectation which has died in me in regards to Dragonite and Gengar. JN has clearly shown us that it only gives character arcs to Pokemon that can evolve- notice the suspicious disappearance of Lucario and Cinderace when they reached their final stage.