Rep is like popularity. It is quite rare that someone hands out rep for the right reasons. It is quite the useless feature the vB still includes for what ever reason. It should be a hack these days.
If you rarely give it, then you can't miss it if you don't have it.
How would it even function as a new generation? It can't be just a new region cause, well, that would be introducing a new region. I don't know why you would even think to post that. No new Pokemon in a new generation...