The fact we have seven generations worth of characters the anime has introduced prior to Journeys, followed and developed in conjunction with Ash's journey makes the revival of Chronicles all the better. A handful of specials did follow Ash's friends after they'd parted with him, but these...
I'd swap any of the two in one episodes for an episode that follows Ash's team starting out with downtime and seeing where it goes from there, or another Oak's Lab episode where Ash's reserves are. Heck, the latter could be an opportunity to use Tracey, who's appearances after Orange Islands...
The Cerise Institute set-up does lessen the dynamics we tend to see when Ash and his friends are camping out, even the Sun and Moon series showed us the teams in downtime. Nowadays if there's a group shot it's usually because the scene is setting up something, such as exposition on the next...
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