>>44110131I don't mind it in concept, my favourite three starters are all part of this trend and several of my favourite non-starters have "job" concepts as well. It's the execution that can be a problem, and what mostly tends to ruin a design is "personality/character first, creature second". If it feels more like a unique NPC from a game with anthropomorphic characters than it does a species as part of the world, then I just can't bring myself to like it - this applies to non-"job" pokemon like Cubone or Mimikyu as well. Gen 8 starters got hit with this the worst, don't like any of them.
