>>47039157I understand the inspiration behind a-golem too, but that doesn't make it any less ugly and stupid (I'd say redundant too because it doesn't add anything that interesting to what probopass already does, but probopass isn't precisely popular so I wouldn't mind having two ferromagnetic bearded rocks if the new one wasn't so ugly and stupid).
A-dugtrio has grown on me, but precisely because of its volcanic glass inspiration I feel they missed the opportunity to make a fast ground/rock type for STAB edgequake purposes, or a ground/fire type for a bit more variety since the only ones we have are camerupt and p-groudon.
Both alolan and galarian variants have winners and stinkers, so I wouldn't call it a filter as much as a mixed bag of a concept.