Definitely the Pokemon franchise needs to grow in terms of being more accessible to their fan base. Like I understand that it's primarily aimed at kids around 10yrs old but the games don't sell millions and shift millions of consoles just to 10yr old kids, the fan base spans generations and people in their adulthood+ play these games too. It should just evolve to incorporate some voice acting like Breath of the Wild did, even some basic effort/emotion noises and the actual Pokemon voices would be great, the time for midi sounds has long since died.
Could just be a sign of people tuning in via streaming instead of over the air/cable. Like don't people have to pay for a "TV Licence" in the UK for like £170/year, so why pay for that when you can just pay for Disney+ @ £130/year or less and stream at anytime that suits you?! It's probably Disney's whole plan anyway. IMO Lux was good but episode 3 is way better.