Short answer: Yeah
Long answer: PTCG card design is locked into a power creep spiral atm and basically every set since SM base, with the exception of SM5 has given us a new BDIF, the tier 1 decks shift with every set, probably because TPCI wants to shift more packs of new sets to prevent situations like we had late last block where the ORAS and early BREAK sets were just flat out better than the late BREAK sets so they were sitting on tons of surplus packs of sets like Evolutions and Fates Collide. There's a reason they put out so many boxes that contained about 50% late XY era packs in early SM. Typically they print the deck with an intent to render the current meta obsolete. Decidueye and especially Garbodor completely trashed ALL decks from the BREAK/ORAS blocks. They print cards like Gardevoir and Zoroark to counter Garbodor, then they print Buzzwole and Glaceon to counter Zoroark (not all of their planned counters work that well). Now we get Malamar/Necro to counter Buzzwole.
It's the classic introducing an invasive species to kill an invasive species tragedy. Once you print cards to force older cards out of the meta, the power level you need to reach to kick that card out of the meta is that much higher. They were much better at avoiding this, I feel, in the late XY era where top 8s typically had at least 4 or 5 different decks around, while nowadays we're lucky to see 3. But I guess that wasn't selling enough packs.
