There's still Yakuza, Persona, Dragon Quest and Xenoblade although I suspect you're not a fan of the latter 3 lol
I'm not a fan of them personally but you do get an endless stream of Pokemon games too
Dragon Quest is not my thing. I realize it's like JRPG comfort food for a lot of people, particularly in Japan for whom DQ is
the RPG series, but for someone like me that grew up on FF, Suikoden, Chrono Trigger, Valkyrie Profile and Breath of Fire, the complete lack of any narrative or mechanical ambition or complexity at work in DQ is really hard to push through. The games really do feel so simplistic that they put me to sleep.
Persona was my bag before they went the whole "every game is 100 hours of mediocre visual novel stuff you need to play with a guide sewn to your right arm to get the most out of" route and then started recycling the exact same character tropes over and over again for the Social Links in each installment. And Hashino being a raging homophobe/transphobe alienated me even further. If we got a Persona game closer in structure to P1 or the P2s, with no Hashino, I'd be interested, but that's about it. I haven't finished a single one of the Social Link era games and I've bought all three of them (some twice).
As for Yakuza, we'll see what happens with Yakuza 8, now that the leadership at RGG Studio has changed quite markedly, who knows what the next mainline game is gonna be like. Nagoshi's original plans for the series may have left with him.
Let's be frank. If the only good part of the series was the combat, it shouldn't have been brought back, regardless of what battle system it uses now.
I wasn't just talking about the combat. One of the biggest, coolest elements of Valkyrie Profile was never knowing what kind of tragic story you'd be engaging with next, and what kind of party member you'd get out of it. The new game pretty clearly seems to be completely wasting the narrative
and gameplay conceit of gathering Einherjar as well by turning them into nothing more than "stands" you summon to do a single attack while you mash Square six million times.
Like why even bother bringing such a specific niche franchise back if you're going to do
nothing interesting with it? It feels weirdly mean-spirited.