You got to loooooveeee how people miscontrue your points on purpose. "Blaming the entitled fans for everything going wrong" when did that ****ing happen? All they are solely being blamed for is their attitude, insults towards the staff and hypocrisy
It's a tale as old as time for toxic fans to defend their stance by crying when they are called out for insulting the staff by saying "we can't even criticise now?". Criticism has always existed, will exist, and should exist. People should have expectations, be disappointed if they aren't met and want better for their franchise. That does not give them the right to act like toxic buffoons though or excuse the language the use. And nothing EVER excuses insults thrown at the artists if you don't like their art.
Oh and also the rhetoric of telling anyone who criticises the show they should drop it so 'real fans' can enjoy it will always be hilarious! As if the actual reason it's said isn't because they are literally hate watching and thriving in negativity so much they become toxic and it affects them, and as if that is healthy
At the end of the day, I just hope they can get proper suits that are more willing to get involved with the actual process the staff does and what they need to deliver, and mostly I hope they can move on with a new story because that'll be a reset, ground zero, no prior expectations as it'll be treading on new ground and is free to make its own choices. The anime needs that, Ash's story can easily be put aside now with the current narrative that's going on.
That's not entirely true. Datamines found placeholders for two more Kalos games (similar Alola placeholders would later be USUM), and Thousand Arrows and Thousand Waves both existed in Gen VI coding, both with animations echoing the Zygarde Cells to some degree. There's also the fact that Zygarde was originally designed as a direct foil to Xerneas and Yveltal, and was later retconned into being a more general guardian of the ecosystem.
That said, it does seem reasonable to believe that the idea for these games was shelved early on. The ideas that later made it into Sun and Moon were very likely original devised for Gen VI, however.
Yes, that's exactly what I said. There was placeholder data found for 2 more games but we never know what they were. Is it reasonable to assume Zygarde would be focused heavily? Absolutely, however that doesn't mean it was XZ or YZ, it could have been sequels, or heck even prequels, or for all we know as GF became unpredictable after ORAS we could have had a game set in the past like LA featuring the 3000 war. Point is, we don't know
We have no evidence to pinpoint what those games would be, nor any evidence to say they were scrapped later and caused everything to be rushed.
The only factual information we have is that there was probably more planned for Kalos, Zygarde's lore might have been saved for Gen 6 only, we had potential for 2 more games based on placeholder data, but it was not the decision they went with, and we don't know when the other decision was made to favour SM (likely a new generation to celebrate the 20th anniversary seemed more tasteful)