At which point do you think pokemon got lumped into the fortnite/ Call of slop category>Sells 10s of millions of units making a crapton of money even though the only demographic that actually likes it are either GoogooGaagaa little timmy toddlers or sub low IQ chimps who can't differentiate between good or bad I'd say it was around gen 6 when they started to make them piss easy.
during pokemania
Diamond and pearl was the shark jump
Gen 3 was when they knew that this franchise would go on forever, but it was specifically with XY when they realized their consumers are literal cattle that'll eat up any shit they put out.
>>59334552fpbp, gen 2 was the last decent videogame, everything else is just for consoomers