You may try to say that the big, bad, holocaust monsters look the part.

No. They generally do not.

In most RPGs, especially Final Fantasy games, each area has monsters around a certain strength level. Some of them look bigger and meaner than others. They may or may not be harder to kill and deal more damage than the smaller, less intimidating creatures.
Did you not read this at all?

To me, all of the monsters in this game look mean, with maybe the exception of marmots/mice/squirrels and now that I've seen them, Ewes and whatever palette swaps they have. The dot on their names and all that crap displaying at once doesn't bother me at all; If you're gonna complain about this, why not complain about name displaying in general? It's one thing for the game to be reminding us that yes, that there series staple is called a "bomb", but when the only difference between thistletail marmots and star marmots is their name and level (now size I suppose) does it really matter? They're all 'squirrels' to me.