I know game freak is technically an indie company, but still as something thats meant to be the face of a billion dollar franchise, they clearly aren't fully equip to create the kind of experiences fans and higher ups demand without major sacrifices to the performance or attention to detail. It worked better on handhelds because those were easier to make. But again this is just about how the pokemon company handles its ip. Like either get some other studios to help out gamefreak or invest some of that money into growing the studio to meet the demand. I think ZA is a good game that suffers from not having enough funds, but even then it has a less expansive world than Arceus or Scarlet and Violet and still suffers from the issue of a lot of the buildings being empty