Pokemon Fans Debate Alleged Gen 1 Bias In Recent Games

How many years has it been since Pokemon fans began to decry Game Freak's slavish devotion to Gen 1? At least a dozen, by my reckoning. The Kanto callout has been happening since before Pokemon X and Y gave ten representatives of Red and Blue's Pokedex their own Mega Evolutions, including two versions to choose between for Charizard and Mewtwo, back in 2013. But it really kicked into high gear around that time, and games like 2018's the Let's Go duology hardly helped The Pokemon Company beat the allegations.