>>483691781. Exeggcute isn't in the picture.
2. There's a world of difference between a seed monster with a resemblance to eggs, both things which occur naturally, and a fucking ice cream cone, a man-made invention.
3. The Pokedex actually acknowledges that Exeggcute is mistaken for eggs. There is no Pokedex entry whereby humans acknowledge that Vanilluxe looks like a snowcone or an ice cream because in doing so, the shallowness of its literal joke design will thereby be exposed.
See the difference is, Exeggcute isn't actually a bunch of eggs. It's a lifeform that just happens to resemble an egg. There's thoughtfulness and richness to its design. Vanillite is literally an ice cream cone with a face and that's as far as that line of thought ever went. Calling it a living icicle is an adhoc justification.
>Koffing is fine but Weezing is an awful evolution for it, it suffers from the same lazy "just add more heads" design philosophy as Dugtrio, Magneton, and Dodrio but at least in Magneton and Dodrio's cases it makes sense given the concept. How come this always comes up when people talk about Gen 1 designs versus Gen 5 designs? It's never bothered me at all, and Vanilluxe does the same thing; and it's awful. Hydreigon does the same thing as Dodrio, so I don't understand what the issue is.