I think it's extremely interesting that two of the people who are downplaying changes are Face 1 Fem Highlanders--you know, one of the faces they used to showcase for the past several months, and had some of the least changes aside from how makeup contours around their eyes, lol.

"Negativity" is being posted on Twitter, Reddit, and the JP side of forums. You can easily figure it out even with subpar machine translations if you don't believe me. The expansion is not going to get delayed or face any real repercussions for this; people absolutely should continue to voice their criticisms regardless of how defensive one might feel for the multi-million dollar company's sake for some reason.

And regardless of semantics, they made a promise that character impressions would change as little as possible. These quotes are literally linked. It doesn't matter how it's said when the sentiment is the same regardless.

Several models were literally higher fidelity in 1.0 and kept their identities unscathed in the transitional "graphical downgrade" to 2.0. These things can be fixed and should be--especially when several new textures and meshes straight up appear to have placeholder quality or look like they were thrown into an AI upscale generator.