Things are slow and have been for months. Arguably even worse now; back when we thought Z was likely, we had things to expect. Volcanion/Hoopa plots, Zygarde stuff, new areas of Kalos, Looker story expansion. With SM we have a name, a miniscule amount of concept art, and Magearna. There's a royal Fuck All to talk about that isn't repetitive, wishlisting, meta- discussion or the occasional shitpost (I don't really want a normal/normal type :V) Related to the Hype discussion way up there ^, I think it's for related reasons that Hype is set at a steady to moderate "simmer". It's not just that we don't have a lot to go on, but also because we were hyped for Z. We had expectations. We had few for a new gen, which is what we got, so the net gain in terms of "expectations met" is in the negative, and that's a big hype killer.