>>39606580>>39603941That's how this people works. No matter their personality, charm, gimmick or whatever that makes the design and the Pokémon different and unique. They destroy everything to this and make the design really boring and generic. Or, in the case of an evolution line member, they only remove these things the other member doesn't have, thinking they have no sense to an evolution as they did with Swalot and Probopass.
In the case of Smoochum, they only scream "muh humanoid". They forgot Pokémon was made in the land of yokais, where a lot of these monsters are human-like, and not especially in the cute way. There are no rules to make a Pokémon, the only requirement is the design must have its own personality, and this is the thing they ruin in all cases.