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Originally Posted by GoseiWonder

Yeah, the team homogeneity thanks to power creep and everyone sticking with the same 10 Pokemon (and one or two wildcards like the Dragonkiller Pachirisu) for generations was soooooooo good.

You're severely underestimating how little me and probably most other people bummed out by this decision care about competitive team variety. No offense, but christ, who gives a fuck. Even with a more limited roster, teams are still just going to gravitate towards a small pool of viable Pokemon anyway, the homogeneity is unlikely to change, just what it's composed of. So legitimately, I couldn't care less.

I think it's generous to imagine the decision had anything to do with trying to balance the meta rather than lazyness or incompetence in the first place. It just sounds like Game Freak's unreasonable need to pump out new games year after year (resulting in dropped features left and right) has caught up to them, so the only thing left to drop to fit their time crunch was the Pokemon themselves.