Author's Note: This may be more of a fandom complaint than an actual problem with the game, but since Platinum tries its hardest to make us feel bad for Cyrus, I decided to include this anyway.
He Really Does Care
"Ha! I knew teaching Infernape Thunderpunch was a good idea!"
Currently, Orangen was battling Cyrus in his office, and her Infernape had just managed to knock out Cyrus's Honchkrow. Due to her celebrating, she didn't notice immediately when he sent out his next Pokémon. Infernape rolled his eyes and tried to get Orangen's attention back to the fight, and she abruptly pulled a very confused expression upon seeing what Cyrus had chosen.
"Wait a minute, did you just send out a Crobat?"
"Why, yes. Your observational skills are very impressive," Cyrus replied dryly.
"But Golbat evolves through happiness." Orangen frowned. "Isn't your grand plan to get rid of emotions? So why would you care if your Pokémon are happy or not?"
Cyrus paused for a moment before answering. "Perhaps Game Freak wants you to over-analyze it and think that I'm not so bad after all."
Orangen nodded. "Oh, okay. I can do that."