ability_changelog_prose.csv inconsist compared to handling of other past_x variables.

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For most things, like past learnsets, past_stats, or past_abilities, the api lists what those things were, and then what generation they changed.

Example would be Clefable, whose Special Attack went from 85 to 95 in Gen 6.

In the API, it looks like this:

• pokemon_id, generation_id, stat_id, base_stat, effort
• 36,5,4,85,0,

This means if I want to pull Clefables stats from Gen 5 or earlier, I have them.

Rather than doing that for abilities, the ability_changelog_prose.csv is presenting something closer to patch notes but backwards.

For example, sturdy changed in Gen 5 to be its current effect:

• When this Pokémon is at full HP, any hit that would knock it out will instead leave it with 1 HP. Regardless of its current HP, it is also immune to the one-hit KO moves: fissure, guillotine, horn drill, and sheer cold. If this Pokémon is holding a focus sash, this ability takes precedence and the item will not be consumed.

I would expect this, if I pulled gen 4 data, to say:

• The Pokemon is immune to the one-hit KO moves: fissure, guillotine, horn drill, and sheer cold.

What the changelog actually says is:

• Does not prevent regular KOs from full HP.

Would we be open to the idea that the changelog_prose contains what the ability actually does in its past gens to be consistent with data is organized?

I would be willing to do the work for English.