Well I feel like it’s also a matter of context, right? Stuff that Nintendo shuts down that I can think of:

the SwIItch

I heard he also modded it to start off round one with 40 million “stars” from his dad’s emerald mine. 

It didn’t take long for bad takes to appear in the greys. I’m not going to bring any of them out, I’ll just say this:

Rather than DLC, isn’t it much more likely this is left-over from a scrapped version of a starting cutscene? As it is now they have Arceus ask about you as a character creator, then he gives you your modified phone and drops you in Hisui.

Personally, I don’t necessarily want Pokemon to be more grown-up, I want it to be more ambitious. They haven’t fundamentally changed in 25 years except to add bells and whistles, and they seem pretty relaxed to stick with it.