Wolfox

I think you are missing the point with the second point you're making. It's like telling a person whose landlord suddenly decided that they can't keep their cats in the apartment anymore that they should get out there to make friends instead for the same reason - "Bonding with people is more satisfying than bonding with cats." You're not only not addressing the issue, but also attacking their interest.

As for your first point, I do agree with that but I look at it in another way - they just can't keep this up forever. With new Pokemon in each generation, the development time on implementing all Pokemon will grow exponentially. It'll be painful for awhile, but we'll eventually come to terms with it.

At first I would've disagreed with you, their motto is "Gotta Catch Them All" so you'd think they'd have all the Pokemon in one game but before you jump on the bandwagon ask yourself this, how many Pokemon could they possibly support in one game? They can't just use sprites anymore because they've committed to their 3d models with animations. Iirc each Pokemon has 3 different attack animations, they have idle animations, entrance and exit animations, animations for getting damaged, and now each Pokemon will have animations for dynamaxing. So how many Pokemon could they possibly fit in one game? 1000? 1500? Because they are quickly approaching 1000, hell, they might even reach it this generation. Probably not, they have 809 currently so I doubt they are making 181 new Pokemon.

I think the best workaround would be making the Pokemon they leave out brought back as dlc. If they can't do that then try to alternate the ones left out so that no Pokemon if left out for more than 1 game in a row. Not even considering bonds or anything like that I couldn't imagine not being able to use Greninja (insanely popular, not likely to be cut but still, it would suck). It might get to the point where when a new Pokemon game releases people will just wait and see which Pokemon are supported.

I understand the devs point but my main problem with this is that you are paying to use the Pokemon home function (where they say you can bring in ALL your old Pokemon into the newer games) so you can funnel them into the new game and transferring the to cloud is a one way trip and now theres no guarantee they can move forward beyond that for a while. What I can see happening is Sword & Shield wont feature national dex but whatever the extended versions would be called will, and they could use that as a selling point after you've experienced the game with the new pokemon.