a problem thats becoming more and more prevalent with pokemon designs is that they're being too faithful to their inspiration leading literally my mom's designs becoming more and more common. what made pokemon stand out from most other monster franchises was that they used to put effort into creating SOME unique designs like Wobbafett and Cresselia that stood out from the norm couldn't really be described as anything other than "things" but nowadays you'll be lucky to find anything in a dex that isn't an animal with some gimmicky persona or an object with a face.