It’s the other way around. GameFreak redesigns the Pokedex each generation to resemble contemporary hardware. Gens 1 through 4 looked like the handheld you were playing on, 5 onwards look like a smartphone, and in Let’s Go only it looks like a laptop.

I have a soft spot for 3 cause it was the first one I played on my mom’s computer. 4 had some neat world building, but i can’t remember much of the second half.