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Because of how Japanese culture and business politics are, this along with every other Japanese IP is doomed to inevitably lose more and more of their identity as the old heads retire because it's seen as disgraceful and disrespectful to change or fine tune things after the original creator/team leaves.

Once Iizuka and Kishimoto leave ST, this franchise is simply doomed and I don't mean doomed in the sense that it's just going to end all of a sudden. No I mean doomed in the sense that things are just going to get progressively worse and worse and less soulful until any original idea or hook of attraction in the IP is grinded down and rusted away.

This is going to happen not just to Sonic but pretty much every Japanese based IP and we are going to have to watch it happen within our lifetimes.