LOTTEN vs bwyattvirtue13
Let's recap: Majority of cards in a main set are fillers, inferior in standard play. Cards that are slow to set up (evolution cards), low HP, little to no synergistic, and lesser effect (i.e. draw one card instead of drawing three cards). It remain consistent that every sets are majority filler and only very few are standard worthy.
R&D team has two main customers after retailers: players and collectors. Who represent more as the customers? You decide. Are the R&D team aware about filler cards? Absolutely. Then why do they not stuffed all "playable" cards in one set? I do not have the official answer. If I have to guess, it is because it is not profitable. Instead, they "stretch out" all the good cards into different sets. Realistically, this strategy is not going to change and we can blame the collectors for that but there is nothing we can do about it. I was a collector and never played pokemon. That being said, I never cared about stats, HP, ability, etc. I wanted pokemon cards for the art.