I feel like these examples were just cherry picked to fit the argument.
The trend of everything becoming "cuter" and less-detailed is hot trashhttps://twitter.com/SlowSpeedrun/status/1136720098406719488 …
Yo, I could never put my finger on why newer pokemon looked different. This is it! Extremely cool 
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I read through the replies, but generally speaking art is evolving to become very smooth-faced, simpler, cuter and easier to digest. Compare older animes to now-- it's everywhere
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There's nothing inherently wrong with either, it's just sad in a sense to see widespread commodification of art at large
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once you do a bird or fox with more realistic proportions, you need to deliver something different next time you pick a bird or fox. if all Pokemon stuck to the old trend of "slightly more towards realism", there would be less variety and imagination
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put original vulpix next to the "original style" zorua. and original pidgey with "original style" pikipek. kind of bland, dont you think?
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oh god i thought they changed vulpix to look like that and i was upset
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Imagine falling for an ancient /vp/ bait image LOL
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Gotta please, or at least not push away, as many people as possible.
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