So, I'm going to try to go at this with the idea of, why do we get remakes at all?
I'm hearing a recurring theme of "Originals were better, remakes not so great."
I want to believe that the reason why the originals are always constantly thought of as better is because the original games were created during a time when remakes were not a viable option, the pokemon franchise had to focus all of their time and effort on making new and better games in order to keep a constant hold in their market audience. Remakes only started being created in the third generation. Once the franchise had established the regular creation of remakes, I think it has been diverting attention and money away from the newer generations which is causing less effort to be focused on the main new games which is in turn making games that feel less complete and also having less of an impact on the audience as a full pokemon game like the first three original generations did.
I personally think that just having all of Game Freak's time, effort, and money being used on main franchise games and completely ignoring the creation of remakes will allow them to just make high quality new generations of pokemon games that are more impacting and better developed in plot as well as programming quality. If they could do that maybe there wouldn't be a reason to make a third game for the purpose of fixing all the mistakes of the first two.
I'm less interested in remakes and more interested in the idea of adding features to the newer generations that involve gameplay that is directly correlated to the past regions but within the current time line of the newer generation that a player would be in. For example wouldn't it be interesting if we found out that the new continent of Alola was located not to far from an older region's most remote island and you could visit that island and it would have a miniature plot line that is all about the older region but it is directly in plot correlation to the current generation you are playing in. I really think this would be a great compensation to players who really want that nostalgic feeling, but also it wouldn't harm the focused game plan of the current generation.
I think remakes are kind of cool, I especially don't want to hate on remakes since I literally just purchased OR, which despite all of this talk, I am still mega hyped to play the Gen 3 remake. Though I will also say, that I would not personally wish for more remakes if it's at the cost of sacrificing high quality newer generation games, because the new generations are what keep the franchise afloat and progressing. I have great memories of playing the older games, but I want to have great memories of playing the newer games as well, not just reliving the same nostalgia over and over again until I'm sick of it.
