1 ° The Pokemon are not fully balanced and the guy ever want to put Shinys.
2 Put a creative thing as NEW Pokemon and not even the only thing that Shinys that without creativity.
3 ° Another thing, new items? LOL to that new items that most useless thing ¬ ¬.
"Even when you'll be postponing the unavoidable, put new pokemon and balance the existing ones.
The most important 2 aspects of the game that need fixing are balancing and economy, and adding new items as loot is helping on the second aspect, because right now hunting strong pokes is a complete waste of money because their loot sucks, and the only way to get money right now is either selling diamonds or having great luck when catching pokemon. They are also balancing pokes, even though it's taking them more time than it should.
PO was on for lots of months before they even announced the johto pokemon update, and even after they did it almost (or more?) a year passed and it never came, PA hasn't even been on for 3 months and you already want the inclusion of johto pokemon? (which would also need the complete johto region map addition, which would mean new quests, NPC's, gyms, etc, etc ,etc.).
I'm usually not a staff defender but some people like you are just stupid, the item addition (what you call useless) will definitely make the game better in something that is needed right now, not shinies or new pokemon.