The Lapras episode was the only one where he had a full team. Beyond that, the only episode that made any sense for him to have what he did was the Squirtle Squad episode due to it being about the Kanto trio. Aside from that, there’s no real reason to limit his team space like that especially...
To be fair, them having Ash walking around with an open slot in his team for the vast majority of this epilogue while Latias continued to follow and watch Ash did create the impression that the writers were building up to him capturing her after observing his kindness across the regions...
The second that it was revealed that Latias was following Ash to see if he was someone she could trust to help her, I figured they wouldn’t have him catch her. Though it does beg the question of why they had Ash going around this whole thing with at least 1 open slot in his team. At that point...
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