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No, but in theory a... What do you call the collection of Pokemon you carry with you? A squad? A hand? A lance? In theory, a hand with a Pidgeot in it ought to be balanced with a hand that has Electrode in it. Pokemon uses Rock-Paper-Scissors style balancing, so some sort of broad-strokes level...

Those are basically quality of life improvements on what is essentially the same game. So how do they balance nine hundred Pokemon, and keep most of them relevant?

OK? What does this game do that the other Pokemon games don't? I see some new features in there, but two of the major ones are iterative (More mega-evolutions, a new species of Delta Pokemon) and the third one is a fad (Base building!).

Go with what works. The base formula of the game is popular enough that they haven't had to innovate. I mean, aside from the Pokemon games produced by Gamefreak, how many Pokemon games have been good enough to warrant a line of sequels?

A better way to put that is that when they handed Pokemon Gold and Pokemon Silver over to a game designer who knew what he was doing, he was able to compress the game so much that they could fit the entire Kanto region on the cartridge in addition to Johto.