Unironically, if GameFreak made their own version of PixelMon - but with Pokémon’s actual art style, and it actually runs well - while feeding it constant updates through the generations (fueled by full-fledged expansion packs to minimize potential micro transactions)
Palworld wouldn’t even be a fraction as successful
The Pokémon MMO dream has been nearly 30 years strong in the minds of quite literally anyone that has played the games, and if Pokémon won’t do it, eventually someone else will