Omg that is spot on. It really looks like they fired everyone but one guy who is busting off his ass to "get a game done" in the same development cycle.
Because you can see he's trying but there's no way he can actually fill this content desert.
IIRC, the Pokemon company has a really high turnover, because they fire all their senior engineers to keep costs down. So the jankyness of it is due to inexperience of their staff.