>>6454086I find avian dinosaurs so much threatening, badasses and plausible which helps to give the sense of real threat.
It also makes them a lot more visually interesting and fun to draw.
I feel people should understand it's not "they trying to make them more like birds", it's that all raptors and several terrapods had feathers and portraying them as such is just the way it is, like portraying manes on lions but no on tigers. It's just reality.