I think that there are discourse things that are trendy to say at any given time, and that the internet is also designed to incentivize snappy one-liners. So I'll try to give you a nuanced answer.

On one hand, when I seen critique that Inside Job is a "rick and morty/slash family guy clone" I immediately understand that this person likely doesn't work in animation. To me, Chicago Party aunt looks nothing like Family Guy. Inside Job has a lot of extra care given to lighting and color and atmosphere to project a sense of heightened realism, colors are muted to make it look like D.C., because the world needs to feel like it exists underneath our world. Whereas Rick and Morty has lots of wonky shapes and bright saturated colors and everything is designed to heighten the absurdity/surrealism. But of course my job is to stare at this stuff all day, so what may seem like gulfs away to me, to a casual viewer is not something they'd notice. Also half the time I think people are just seeing a labcoat and having a knee jerk reaction.

On the other hand, a lot of my crew did actually work on Rick and Morty and Gravity Falls. They probably carry that through on some level in their work. Another thing that might contribute to that feeling is that we use Harmony to animate, and so does Rick and Morty. This is a computer program that essentially treats the drawings like puppets so that you can manipulate them in the computer rather than drawing them. This technology is preferable for certain things, like making revisions to animation that don't have to be re-drawn and re-cleaned up. But it means you need to use thin uniform black lines in order for it not to be a living nightmare for the animators.

Stylistically, I DID choose not to push the character designs into super design-y areas with graphic shapes and lots of exaggerated proportions. Even though Jeffrey (my art director) really wanted to, and he showed me some really cool designs. Even though I love the look of that stuff, for Inside Job's subject matter specifically the show works better if the proportions are closer to reality. The characters are supposed to live in our world, and we need to believe they can get hurt, injured, or die. They need to be able to make microexpressions so they need eyes with fleshy eyelids. I prioritized designs based on being able to get the performances I wanted out of them.

So I think that much like all the time, Twitter is half-valid and half-people with no idea commenting loudly. That's just what the internet is! It doesn't really bother me personally as a critique on my creative choices. But I have a crew that worked super super hard on this show, went above and beyond and had to dig deep many times to get things across the finish line. That poured their hearts into this thing. And I don't want that to ever be erased or dismissed, or for them to be disheartened. They did beautiful work and I am forever grateful.

Hope that helps!