They have been making a zillion episodes since 1997.
And ratings don't matter. Plus, the target audience will still see their beloved monsters on TV and buy the games and toys.
Also, both AG and DP lasted 4 years.
Plus, the anime is just a commercial for the games and can easily adapt to them. Have too much too? Make fillers. Don't have enough time? Cut episodes.
Maybe some people think bringing back the National Dex will delay the games. Or maybe they just want to be contrarian or defend GF and show they are the "true fans".
Creatures made 802 walking animations. Why couldn't GF have used them in SS?
And why cut Ride Pokémon? They were there in SM.
GF, cutting features just because.
Game Freak may regret having made that many Pokémon, but it's entirely on them. I don't know what should be the solution since once a Pokémon is released, it can't be undone.
I don't know if GF will retcon some Megas into normal evolutions, they haven't retconned Leafeon and Glaceon to be stone evolutions.
But I would be down for them retconning the Megas of single-stage mons like Mawille and Absol.
Also, MCY and MMX were unneeded. And Mega Ray is broken and has a...
I did find XY was incomplete. It seems they spent some much time on graphics they didn't have time to finish some other stuff. And the story wasn't good.
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