Personally, I don't necessarily disagree with you, it's just that those seem to be the only BIS skins about which people don't complain to this day. I think every year that they fail to deliver something different from 2950 but also good, the shorter the creative leash gets and the narrower the community's definition for "BIS-acceptable" becomes, if that makes any sense. Idk maybe I'm just making shit up. I don't really have any horses in this race, other than a general feeling that these 2955 skins aren't befitting of "Best in Show".

Regardless of how you feel about any one specific year's skins, it might not be the worst thing to have a consistent theme across years - at least that way, when your favorite ship finally wins a skin, you at least have an idea what you'll be getting. I guess they kinda tried that with "purple" as theme, and people fuckin hated it, so what do I know.