I certainly think there are a lot of issues, but I don't really get all the doom and gloom surrounding this, as it's a work in progress and given the outcry I imagine they will try to fix these issues. The vast majority seem to be related to a poor recreation of the old models with the new, Ultimately though I think they just need to tweak the new models to have more defined facial features to better match the old ones. As many have pointed out they didn't do so well and smoothed/altered a lot of the features way too much. It's good that we are pointing out specific cases though as it can show them which parts, exactly, to change. There are also clearly some texturing issues and lack of skin imperfections that make the skin look waxy and plastic-y.

Given that most of the complaints are about models and shader parameters, I genuinely think they can fix the vast majority of complaints before Dawntrail. That being said I think the devs should ABSOLUTELY focus fixing these issues before release because it's clear a lot of the changes have completely changed a lot of characters.

I was lucky enough that my character wasn't affected that much, but from the screenshots posted I can absolutely see why people are upset. I just don't think we should be thinking that these changes are permanent yet, because they haven't said that they aren't open to making any more changes. I think we should wait to see how square responds before making any conclusions about quitting the game or anything like that. If they can use this criticism to solve the issues, we should be good

I think the rest of the game seems to look great, at least. I don't think they should revert things back to the way they were with everything, but the characters certainly need to be polished up.

Edit: Some spelling and grammar