Pokemon needs more games that take the usual Pokemon game loop and do different things with it

Agreed, we just have different opinions on whether legends succeeded in doing this well or not.

Hot take but I believe that scarlet/violet and let’s go games did do different things and did them well (though scarlet/violet clearly needed more development time).

Nobody knows what legends-za will be like but it’s a possibility that the game will fix legends arceus’s problems.