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Sorry, I mistyped it before. I meant why DIDN’T they keep Brock around after Sinnoh.I wouldn't really consider five years to be a short amount of time. It's shorter compared to how long the anime has been going on, but Misty still technically had the longest run in the main cast out of all of the female leads and the only one to last through two generations. Granted, the latter is primarily because Johto was part of the original series instead of being its own series and there wasn't a female characters from G/S that could have joined the cast either, but I still think it counts for something. Neither May, Iris or Cilan traveled through as many regions as Misty did and I'm pretty sure hardly anyone considers the later part of BW as a separate series.
I don't know how Brock could have seemed more likely to be permanent compared to Misty. He did last a lot longer in the anime than she did by comparison, but they already replaced Brock once before. Even with how long he stuck around, he didn't have the same kind of permanency compared to Ash and Team Rocket. Misty didn't last as long, but since she was there from the beginning and hadn't been replaced prior like Brock, I could see why people thought back in the day that she would be a permanent character in the cast.
No, Brock left after DP. He changed his goal to become a Pokemon Doctor, which was pretty fitting for him. He was always taking care of Pokemon and becoming a Pokemon Doctor gave him a more solid goal than the vagueness of becoming the world's greatest Pokemon Breeder.