Me personally, I think that any lore or world building that would be removed from a more streamlined evolution process would be made up for by...a more streamlined evolution process.
Like, if I want an Espeon, I’d have more fun by evolving my Eevee with a Sun/Dawn stone and just getting the...
I just realized that the Ice Stone exists now. They could easily retcon it so that Leafeon evolves from a Leaf Stone and Glaceon evolves from an Ice Stone. Of course, that would imply Game Freak was interested in streamlining these games, which we all know is a joke.
Maybe Ho-Oh was originally meant to be more of a Mewtwo figure to be shared with both versions and the version mascots were originally intended to be other Pokemon? Perhaps Meganium and Tyhplosion (to mirror Green and Red) or Typhlosion and Feraligatr (to mirror Red and Blue?)
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