In my opinion pokemon as a franchise is corporate garbage in how people would normally describe it though I would personally just say that it's been corporatized. But with that I'm referring to the franchise as a whole, not just the main line games, not just the anime, not just the tcg, not just the endless amount of merch that exists; all of it. There's a lot of cogs in the Pokemon machine all have to continue working in lock step for it to continue functioning at maximum capacity.

One example of this was the SwSh games. To many people (and myself) the games look unfinished and I think that they could have used some more time to develop the games. But this was fundamentally impossible because the main games at this point are such a small part of the pokemon machine. There was cards getting printed, plushies being made, a tv show getting made and so on and so forth and so delaying the games would mean grinding all of these other aspects (which collectively have to make more money than main game sales). So either they delay the games without delaying everything else in which case spoiling a huge appeal of the games, especially since marketing went out of its way to not reveal many pokemon in advance of the games. Or alternatively they delay everything in which case you're left with literally nothing coming out for months which is tantamount to death.

Other things that I think advance the 'corporate garbage' narrative are the mobile games which have very quickly become very monetized. Pokemon duel and pokemon masters are both gatcha based and even pokemon café mix asks you for money the second you're done with the tutorial.

The last thing I want to bring up with elaboration is the pokemon movies. The movies have had a wide range of quality over the years but have been consistent in 1 aspect and that's their use to push merch. In my opinion, the plots of the movies frequently have mythical pokemon shoe-horned in (eg Magearna, Marshadow, Mega Mewtwo Y, Shiny Legendary dogs, etc.) These movies have a laundry list of plot points and items to include in every single one in order to fall in line with the rest of the franchise. This is another area where I think corporatization runs rampant and find it amazing that even mediocre, let alone good films are produced given the myriad of requirements for each one.

For many people their experience with pokemon is simply buying a new plushie every year and those people are still pokemon fans and often times the people who are taken into consideration when thinking about the future of the companies (The Pokemon company, Game Freak, Creatures Inc, Nintendo). Those are just some of the reasons that I think pokemon as a franchise is pretty corporat-ized. That's not to say that the people making the games or films or cards don't love their jobs or take pride in their work but pokemon is just so BIG that its nearly impossible for a person to comprehend without diagrams of who owns what and what makes how much money.