What the hell was the reasoning behind picking Chikorita and Tepig of all starters.

In a french inspired region. In the year of the snake. THEY DECIDE TO GO FOR THOSE TWO STINKERS AND A FUCKING ALLIGATOR INSTEAD OF SNIVY AND PIPLUP. I swear to god I fail to understand why they would do this. Don't tell me they want to redeem those two because just the sight of both of them in the same starter selection screen made my heart drop, and having the two least popular starters be in is definitely not a good look for the game. They are the least popular for A PLETHORA of reasons. They are so behind all the rest of the starters in popularity it's not even funny. I want to like this game so bad, but they haven't shown a single new form or mega, and after a year of waiting and no promise of more info coming soon it feels extremely disappointing to see Tepig and Chikorita standing together with slightly improved SV graphics in the back. You could never convince me to like these two disgraces of the community, but I beg for you, the 4 people who actually like them, to try, because it's all we have unfortunately.