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Ranting & Raving!
Not directly connected to what you're say... or maybe it is. But I learned some interesting trivia about a certain scene you may have thought was re-used, but it's not re-used... and it's more baffling for it.This is more on the "development curiosity" side of conspiracy but...
I think Hop was one of the first character models they made & they didn't go back towards the end of development to touch him up as much as they should've (or, perhaps, could have. time constraints and so on).
Youtuber RadicalSoda for the past months has been slowly but surely been going through & reviewing Pokemon Sword & Shield. If you haven't checked his stuff out I suggest it, he's funny but also makes a lot of good criticisms (some which we have echoes plenty of times, but he may point out things we may not have realized or shows an example of what issue he's having with the game. Here's the links to make it easy: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4, and...).
In the most recent one, Part 5, he gets to the scene where the player & Hop are riding the train to Wyndon. Now most of us just assumed they re-used the first scene of the player & Hop on the train going to the Wild Area. Turns out, this isn't true... and somehow made the scene look worst if you really paid attention to it. I'll let RadicalSoda explain it cause he's the one with the video.
(If I were to suggest other Youtuber's playthroughs & reviews of Sword & Shield I'd suggest Alpharad and Desbug)