As someone who already lost interest in Pokemon a while back, I think its current problems don’t entirely stem from Game Freak’s potential incompetence. I no doubt think that the staff working there just aren’t used to making big-budget titles like this, but the constant rushing is necessary for the franchise to function. The Pokemon videogames are really just one cog in the massive Pokemon machine. They have to make yearly releases so the anime and TGC have new things to cross-promote, they have to add in new gimmicks for the marketing of things like the anime, they have to save time on making new models because any delay has a ripple effect on the entire multi-media empire. It’s unfortunate, and I think that mode, is really starting to catch up with them now. Being controlled by two other companies certainly doesn’t help either I’d imagine.