Well... The way in the pokeballs are just faster. They can still just take a pokemon and apply the same medicine and whatnot outside of one.
We decided not to do anything for the time being, the only real risk factor being if we noticed other people feeling pressured to copy such a thing we'd have to step in and do something about it. That was really... the primary worry, that others would see pokemon having a harder time healing and think "Wow, that's nitty and gritty and cool! I should copy that!" and suddenly you've got people feeling lame and alienated because they don't do that and bla bla bla.
We decided not to do anything for the time being, the only real risk factor being if we noticed other people feeling pressured to copy such a thing we'd have to step in and do something about it. That was really... the primary worry, that others would see pokemon having a harder time healing and think "Wow, that's nitty and gritty and cool! I should copy that!" and suddenly you've got people feeling lame and alienated because they don't do that and bla bla bla.