No. Pokemon’s core design ethos of accessibility, social functionality, and creative creature design is what it is largely because of the devs at Gamefreak. Many other devs have tried to follow their general model to varying degrees of success (looking at you, Level 5), but Gamefreak and TPC have masterfully kept Pokémon popular for 25+ years at this point - not an easy task!
Gamefreak is obviously technically lackluster (plus constantly rushed to push out games), but trying to take credit away from them for making Pokémon what it is isn’t fair.