Bring Back National Dex - Habu v Masuda

"We don't ask players what they really want. We just assume stuff."

That's the difference between Digimon and Pokemon. Since a Digimon game isn't guaranteed to make millions by name alone, they have to actually care.
And it shows.
Also, let's put a moritorium to that "Digimon may have better anime but pokemon games are better" myth, because that stopped being the case a long time ago.