User blog comment:Mr.123/Agent Artifact Challenge Three: Bountiful Times/@comment-3270170-20171108012640/@comment-24588058-20171109041055

There are definitely a lot of Pokémon now. And I'm sure they have how-many designs in the wings. It does seem like they wanted to limit the number of Pokémon in Sun and Moon. I mean, there wasn't even a National Pokédex this time! That definitely was done to try and make sure people didn't need to have played the other games to "catch 'em all".