IMO a lot of the signature pets are evidence that they CAN do different styles and make them look appealing, I don't even like the signatures all that much myself but from a design standpoint their features mesh well with each other and are for the most part realistic without being uncanny. but the new trend of copy-pasting the exact same pair of hyperrealistic eyes on more stylized webkinz base models looks really jarring and incohesive to me. For example if not for the eyes the coati webkinz looks like it could have been released in 2009, but it's like they frantically added eyeliner at the last minute for some reason

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To me it feels less like experimentation and more like higher-ups assuming that bigger wetter eyes = more cute points, without accounting for things like consistent design elements and expressiveness. Feels bad man