>If they just kept adding a new batch each time without removing any of
>the old ones, the obligatory quest to 100% the Dex would be a helluva
>slog by now... An obvious solution presents itself, as they say.
Honestly, the whole "catch em all" thing feels very dissonant to the story themes very often IMO. At least some of the newer games changed the dex completion requirement to 'see' instead, but still...
-IA.
(stuff like 'here's this gen's new bug evolution lines! they both suck!' also got old after a while)