It's not a question of console generation enabling more stadiums. In the PS3 days, we had no classic stadiums, but we did have many, many more generic stadiums. I think we had 30 minor league and 20 spring training, but I could be wrong. Regardless, we had more.
We got less in the PS4 era due to increased textures and other graphical features. This meant every stadium had to be redone. SDS even mentioned it in one of their streams, talking about how these stadiums were rarely being used by anyone other than power users (us here on OS) and it wasn't worth their time and resources to update all of the old generic stadiums.
Now with relocation there is more reason to bring generic stadiums back, and I sincerely hope more of them will be MLB level looking (including at least one dynamic roof stadium). However they clearly didn't commit the resources this year, and the reason why was probably so the stadium team could add in real advertising into real life stadiums (as shown in the streams).
So in all honesty I'm kind of glad they didn't add more generic stadiums. Although my Rogers centre may still be inaccurate, as a big Budweiser advertisement may threaten the E for Everyone rating sports video games so desperately need.
Side note: anybody remember barley pop from when franchise mode had concessions? Clever little work around.
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