I still believe that they skipped QA altogether, used this game as another playground for another layup we'll see next year, and the cycle repeats itself with the same formula, just getting worse each year. It's also still selling like gamer girl bath water because the fanboys and fangirls would buy even a stick with some fur on it if The Pokemon Company deemed it new merch just as GF would with a new Pokemon game.
I also think they just copy and pasted a bunch of 3D assets they had laying around cause even the cities are placed into the world with no artistic detail such as a dirt rock road leading into each city. It's like a recent video I watched where they were building new modern towns in Zimbabwe and the shit dirt roads cut straight into street asphalt. I mean, I guess that explains why there's random street lights in that loopy construction pit in the game whereas they could of just as easily popped in a spotlight or two...
The game overall is poorly designed, though the formula this time seems a bit different with the cross-types they introduced. The only other issue I have is that they are losing their creativity with these stupid mons they keep adding that also look like dog shit. Wigglet will forever look like a sperm cell and it's evolution either looks like three beef franks or three dog dicks, I dunno at this point tbh