Character graphical changes are NOT in an acceptable state, please make it optional

[TheDruidOcelot]

I don't deny that there are some changes which have left me wondering why they were made at all: changes to positions of hair colouring or the removal of glossy appearance of lips (true, not 'natural' but we have other makeup on characters so I don't see why a little gloss would be out of the realms of reality) are two that spring to mind quickly.

But the point remains that many of the changes being complained about by lots (eye glints, skin texture etc.) are perfectly understandable changes. If even those are considered by some to be out of the question, then exactly what changes would they expect as part of this 'same but better' approach?

i mean, they deleted elezen cheekbones and took away keeper miqote fangs, they changed the apparent luminosity of eyes as well, not just the glints, they desaturated the iris colors to look 50% as colorful. like those are ALL HUGE changes that should never have happened. the glints and skin textures wouldn't be so noticeable and abrasive if they didnt also take away all the other stylization from the characters by smoothing everything to an absolute absurd level.

EDIT: my final, clarifying, statement on the matter, because its getting to be a cyclical argument.

look. the public facing PR team swore up and down they wouldn't make people's characters look so different they couldn't be recognized. but that's what's happened.

so, because of the emotional response of feeling lied to, people are more upset than they would be if the pr team hadn't gone and made promises they knew couldn't be kept. (or could have been kept but they chose not to, because they seemingly decided the existing stylization was ugly, despite saying they didn't want characters to look realistic.)

the emotional response to being blatantly lied to is combining with the obvious disappointment at characters looking absolutely like different people than they looked like (and the bias against dark skinned characters, making them look literally grey is not at all good.)

so people are 3-5x as upset as they would have been if they had not chosen to make those public statements. even if they were just hypetrain pr fluff, they are retroactively lies. because they did not ever update with a "ok so they're going to be much more different than they were before, we're very sorry. a fantasia might not actually fix it." which would have been the better option. to be humble and actually apologize, or delay the graphical improvements until they could be done with the care and attention they actually deserved, rather than the slapdash nonsense that is being shown in the benchmark. They would have known just how different it is BEFORE the las vegas fanfest, and they made choices that obfuscated that fact.

that doesn't reflect kindly on the PR team or devs.