1. Unlike Dracovish I can't imagine them waiting since Ash doesn't have an unevolved Pokemon, sure we barely see Ash's journsy's team but that says more that they won't get big appearances I don't see the point of Absol getting shafted like Dracovish was.
1b. In context to preview, we don't see Ash bonding with Absol, does Ash's Pokemon need to treated more crappy that Ash catches Absol but its a nothing episode. Doesn't Ash deserve better in regards to his Pokemon, do they needed to be treated like the vast amount Go's Pokemon? Grookey got a dedicated episode, Absol doesn't?
2. Ash isn't getting an infinite amount of Pokemon, while you can argue his options are great, you can't argue for multiple choices. He's not getting Absol, Piplup, Urshifu, Corviknight and Golisopod, he's lucky to get one maybe even 2 but he's not getting all 5 of these Pokemon
3. Time and Place, getting Absol now makes no sense when we are seeing Infernape in the preview, why would they randomly focus on 3rd generation when 4th generation makes sense? Either Ash getting Absol should've been done sooner or maybe next year but I feel like 4th gen should get priority. Especially with context of them not linking Absol with Ash in the preview except being next to Go which brings me back to my other point: Why give Ash a Go-like capture it it was so important? We don't need another Farfetch'd/Dracovish in captures for Ash.
We don’t know what Pokémon Ash will or won’t get. It’s also not a matter of how we want Ash’s captures to be handled.
Of course Ash isn’t getting infinite amount of Pokémon however we don’t know how many Pokémon he will get or what they will be.
Also Infernape being in the preview doesn’t really say anything about what the outcome of the Absol will be. Ash catch Absol in episode 64 doesn’t prevent him from promoting gen 4.
Also if they truly cared about prioritizing Ash’s captures to promote the current games then they wouldn’t have put off the capture of Ash’s 1st gen 8 Pokémon to be his 4 capture and then have Ash catch 3 non gen 8 Pokémon as his first 3 captures especially considering two of those Pokémon didn’t promote Sword & Shield nor there DLC in any way.
Also Goh-like capture? Are you kidding me? Yes they have given some capture episodes plots that focus on one Pokémon to Goh, but let’s not pretend that a Pokémon being discriminated against isn’t a plot of capture that doesn’t make sense for Ash.
It wouldn’t be the first time Ash caught a Pokémon that he wasn’t initially shown to bond with either. If anything the plot of episode 64 makes perfect sense for a capture for Ash. Could it go to Goh? certainly, but it’s also possible that it could go to Ash.
Plus it wouldn’t be the first time that Ash caught a Pokémon in this series that people were saying he wouldn’t catch.
Nothing is written in stone and with how this series been is there are very few things that are certain. At this point one could just draw names from a hat or use a dart board or make a list of a random group of Pokémon and have the same chance of being right as everything else.
If there is one thing I learned about this series is that while we can speculate on what Ash might or might not catch we have no way of knowing what Ash’s team will actually be or how many captures he will actually get.