only just now found out that pokemon FINALLY released soundtracks for sword/shield (+dlc), legends arceus, and scarlet violet (+dlc) on pokemon day. idk why i didn't hear about it when they announced it back in december but that's really cool
i ended up making my own album art to use with the gamerips (since i didn't think the fanmade ones i'd seen looked authentic enough). i didn't do the sword and shield one until recently (there was no clear image of the background so i had to improvise a bit) and maybe i wouldn't have done it at all if i'd known there was an official one already
(these are the ones i made btw. i should probably add that for clarity because they do look pretty official i think. the new soundtracks are japan-only so there's only japanese album art)
bdsp still doesn't have a soundtrack though
i guess it's the least necessary of these. in terms of credits, shota kageyama and junichi masuda did the music, and with more than one person credited it would be nice to have confirmation of what masuda did--but it's probably not a lot since he's had a limited role with music since gen 4 or so (the people who do the pokemon sound sources spreadsheet seem to think he only did "new cutscene theme" and "unused ambient theme" whatever those are). the other 3 had a lot more people working on the music
the other thing that makes official soundtracks cool is when they do bonus tracks, and none of the 3 new ones have any, so bdsp doesn't lose out on that either (for better or worse)
and of course usm still doesn't have its new tracks released on a soundtrack. emerald and platinum only got theirs because bw2 had enough new tracks to warrant a soundtrack but enough space to devote the final disk to those two, so it ended up being kind of a third version compilation soundtrack in a way, but since they don't do third versions anymore i think usm's best hope at this point is being tacked on to an alola remake's ost or something (all of the remakes so far have included the original games' soundtracks on their osts)