Ever since the 3DS eShop closed down, Pokémon Bank - for those who had been fortunate enough to download it before then - became free to use, allowing all Trainers to transfer Pokémon from the main series games on that console as well as from a few prior games with some additional tools. However, I also said then that such a state of affairs might not last indefinitely... and I was right, for Pokémon Bank is now due to shutter its services, which means that I have to bring up the topic for discussion once more - specifically for that fact.
The closure will certainly "break the bank" in a figurative sense, and it means that it won't be possible to transfer Pokémon from the games as mentioned. They would cover the third through the seventh generations - the first three with the "additional tools" and the last two on the 3DS itself, plus the third by their remakes. If and when the Pokémon Bank is shuttered, these generations will become "inert" just like the first two, the only difference being that those first two generations never had much in the way of transfer mechanisms.
With the impending closure, there is the initiative to transfer necessary Pokémon as soon as possible. Even so, with the current main series games on the Switch, most older Pokémon can be obtained from them, and the exceptions aren't too great in number as some people have discovered. Those exceptions would then become imperative to be transferred through the current protocols that ultimately end up with usage of Pokémon Bank, while the rest can be found through the Switch games - unless, of course, one doesn't have them.
Some players (Trainers) have called for an extension to the active period of Pokémon Bank, and this may be understandable given some of their needs. Whether that extension can or cannot be granted, it is necessary to bear in mind that the 3DS is long in the tooth by now and its online infrastructure will eventually need to be taken down so that the ones for the Switch (2) can carry on its functions. The eShop has evidently done just that, so then that leaves the ones for games or apps themselves - in this case, Pokémon Bank as an "app".
After the Bank is "broken", players (Trainers) will then need to carry on with what has been transferred from it to Pokémon Home - certainly, a reminder for the final step of transfers - for use in the modern main series game ecosystem. Given the course of time, that's certainly where things are headed, past the shadow of prior Nintendo consoles (including the 3DS) and the Pokémon games that are on them. The "breaking of the bank" could thus be considered a turning point for that, with the brighter main series future ahead of it.
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