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Originally Posted by gold stinger

the fandom began to believe that they were running out of original ideas for new pokemon.

A common misconception IMO, and is completely untrue. If anything, the Pokemon team is forced to become more creative as the number of new Pokemon increase. People mistake unconventionality with creativity. For whatever reason, a lot of people only consider naturalistic Pokemon as valid (e.g. a Ghastly is clearly a ghost, a Pidgey is clearly a bird) while anything outlandish in real life doesn't seem to count (e.g. Bronzong = a living bell; the reaction is as such: ridiculous, unreal, artists running out of "ideas").

The Mega evolutions we're seeing here is a different story however. I'm sure there is a complete intention to make only slight modifications, as these aren't true evolutions in the sense that such Pokemon do not remain in that state. This is just artistic control that defines "Mega evolutions"; it has little to do with a lack of creativity IMO.