Yeah, Jessie and James are only briefly in Pokemon Yellow/Let's Go for mainline games.
The TCG is based on the games first and foremost, always has been. That's why we have Red instead of Ash and Blue instead of Gary.
Yeah, we do... This just happened literally a couple of years ago.
And a couple of years before that too.
Not to this extent, but it still happened.
But it will go away, and then it'll happen again.
It takes a lot longer than a month or two to initiate reprints. Hence why it says "later this year".
It's not as simple as just firing up more printers.
Actually a shame that it gets obscured. I'd be pretty annoyed if I was an artist and put that much effort into a card just to have all of the artwork covered up.
"Only one promo will be given to each customer" yeah, that's always the case but it's never actually the case. Day one you'll see people with dozens upon dozens of them for sale.