I don't know, the latter games (SWSH mainly) does seem more "soulless", and as of today there's still easily found and reported bugs that wasn't fixed, which for me makes it look like they just don't care.
And GameFreak always did lots of bugs, but at this point, since they've been doing that from decades, if they're not improving on programming I think it need to be disinterest or incompetence, like I said before.
And multiple times they did interviews just batlantly lying about the game, like when they said they had to cut pokémon because "it wouldn't fit the region", they "needed to remake from scratch all models", or "the moves needs custom animations", and none of it was true, since cut pokémon was featured on promotional works in the new region, the models are the same since Pokémon XY, and the animations are almost non-existent (even Pokémon Stadium on Nintendo 64 had better animations).
Pokémon Arceus I tried playing but I found very, very ugly and gave up on it.
(Yeah, I'm biased against recent Pokémon games, but there actually are lots of issues with it).
But hey, this morning I saw some artwork that reminded me of you!