I will say when I said “quite a bit into 2025” it was more-so to say that we’re past the “the year just started” point (in my personal viewpoint, overall this is a subjective statement, but we are past first 10th of the year already).
I REALLY appreciate your response, and the time you took to write it. If I’m being honest I think the information you put here is worth boosting to a more accessible area (maybe a “but what about pokemon” section of the FAQ?), because I really think that reply would satisfy anyone who might have similar concerns. I want to also show appreciation for going into some of the weeds on WHY it’s complicated. I hope my other two posts didn’t come off as too on-edge. I was more just trying to get a bit of a meatier answer than “it’s just complex” as that felt somewhat dismissive, and you provided far more than I even was expecting.
Maybe it might also be worth clarifying the donation bit on a more obvious place too. GRANTED I didn’t dig too much on this.
As it currently stands if I google “pretendo pokemon ORAS” I get this, which gives the impression that it’s been available to beta people since at least September 2024. Obviously, as you’ve clarified, there’s a lot of asterisks to that. But as an end user looking outside-in there’s no quick way for me to have known that.
Anywhozzle, thank you much for your time! I would offer help but unfortunately even though I did do some CompSci in college it was VERY basic lol. My expertise is more IT-centered 
(being said I do have a friend who developed the beginnings of PokeMMO before the project was picked up by the current team, so I might point him in y’all’s direction since I think he recently mentioned being bored lol)