>>27233212one of the few clearly humanoids
>>27233221but the point isn't the exceptions exist at all
it's that the exceptions have become the definitions and the norm
>animals with literally baby clothes that evolve into animals wearing adult clothesAnd there's not enough of the original humbly designed pokemon that made up the majority of the original 151 roster to ground the series or balance out the excessively overdesigned abominations
Look i'm just explaining how Normies see it.
In the end it's all subjective but don't make the mistake of excusing the normie view as just being "nostalgia".
There IS a clear change in design direction that is NOT imagined or tinted by nostalgia goggles and perfectly valid reason to reject the latest generations.
