They went back to just calling the show plain old "Pocket Monsters" again, so is there GOING to be anything after it? And if so, are they just going to call it "Pocket Monsters: (some subtitle)" after gen 8 ends? That would just make going back to a subtitleless title like that feel even more weird.
I think they could pull something a bit like "arc names". Kind of like what BW did with "sub-names" like "Season 2", "Episode N" and "DA" when we reach the generation shift.
Alternatively, they may just do gradual changes. Or just add a new cast member (girl, most likely). Or change nothing at all.
In my opinion, they probably haven't thought about it. Yajima's said he and his team would found out the series was done one year before SM started so assuming we'll have a new gen next year, then they may be about to find out. If that's the case, I think we might see hints of it with the developments we'll get along this year.
Satoshi? He’s a marketing face for the show. I’m sure at this point Digimon writers wish they had just kept Taichi and the Adventures cast of Chosen Children given how Toei keeps making content and stories with them over and over and over.....I think it’s a genius strategy for money but storytelling obviously it’s not the best. Plus if they replaced him it would be with another Pikachu trainer with the most generic boy adventurer personality because that’s what the main face of the franchise has to be. Even the game protagonists since customization are all bland and samey-same.
I, for one, am glad they changed the protagonists. I've found Takato, Masaru/Marcus, Taiki/Mikey and Haru to be much better leads than Tai will ever be.
Davis and Takuya are a bit of a "middle of road" deal for me. I like them more than I do Taichi but they are far from being my favorites. I'll say my opinion on Davis improved a bit with his portrayal on Kizuna though.