We need to compromise as a player base

[Loggos]

A lot of people are saying "it's just lighting," and one, that is an issue in itself but two, a glimpse around the forums shows that features themselves have changed. Sometimes drastically. A lot of the times poorly.

I made a graph about lighting and skintone. But I also made one about features. And this is just my one, singular elf.

Thank you very much, those are great comparison images! They show the difference in mouth and eye shape as well as bone structure really clearly.

The mouth change really stands out here. It looks like it could be from a different face option.

I think myself and most others would be happy to compromise. I would even tolerate the jank candle-effect on the skin if I could just have my character's lips, nose, chin, and eyes back. It's okay if he looks fine or better to others! But that's not (my) character who I've played, gposed, drawn, written, and commissioned for years ):

I completely agree with this point. I can accept inevitable changes like lighting and texture but I'd like to keep my features of choice. If my chars look like themselves with suboptimal waxy skin I can still live with that.
But the feature changes make them look like different people.
I would never (re)design them like this in the character creator if I were given these new features as options.