yea.. because its a work-in-progess version..... as they said many times.
oh god..
PLD WS (Same animation like now)
Same Movement animations..
Same emote animations
i mean have you even looked close to that animations and have you even noticed that these animations are mostly exactly the same? no it seems not.
so with that in mind.. that mostly all of these animations we have right now... how can you call it a downgrade? ok... except the back pedaling.. and it seems that the movement animations are not finished yet
"Work in progress"... "pre-alpha"... does tell you anything? the flaming about that, although the developers say all the time they did not wanted to show the early game version for now, is just so annoying. but now they see what they got.. ridiculous flaming posts of players who cant even look closely to the animations.
save your energy for now.. and complain afterwards when you actually played the beta or whatever. this is just all about presumptions and thoughts how you think it is going to be.