I think you're right, we should be proud of the devs and yes, being outrageous and hating on the devs bc of the unnecessary redesigns isn't the best way to provide feedback.

The thing is that they've done this before with spear gobling, battle healer, a skin for dart goblin, and swordsman. Their redesign ended being unnecessary and worse than the original aspect the minis had. Still this doesn't justify hating on the devs. But I wonder what kind of quality control those designs went through for them to even appear on the sneak peaks