I'm going to give you guys an honest opinion, since I don't want to necessarily hold too much back to try to please everyone.
With that out of the way, I think this bit of news has lead to many overreactions and mass hysteria, and even to toxicity and harassment.
Let me tell you that I don't like the change that much. Few people actually do like the change.
However, the kind of backlash this has received has been ridiculous.
You are well within your right to criticize the choice. I believe that criticism is a part of how we look at things critically, even outside of video games.
However, the behavior has been insufferable lately. People will call Game Freak lazy or incompetent, harass the people involved, twist the narrative, and talk about boycotting the game.
These are inane things to do, and harassment is not tolerable.
I'm tired of people saying that others are "defending Game Freak" as an umbrella statement. It's fine to say that the change isn't that bad, or offer reasonable explanations as to what they are doing. Now, some people are definitely defensive, and don't take well to criticism, but as long as they are not toxic about it, it is well within they're right to talk about the good as it is people talking about the bad.
Also, I'm giving Masuda the benefit of the doubt that he is giving the games the quality he believes the games need. I sincerely doubt Masuda or Ohmori or whomever are trying to snub anyone. You also have to remember that the footage we saw is still about 5 months before launch day, so some things might change before then.
One other thing, and sort of a minor note, is that if they don't patch the game, we may be able to transfer Pokemon not in Sword/Shield into the next games, like the possible Diamond/Pearl remakes. The Pokemon series is basically a conglomerate at this point, so whatever isn't in one game will be in another, and this may become true for Pokemon. My point here is that I doubt your Pokemon will be stuck in Pokemon Home for that long.