New Pokemon Go avatars look horrendous

They never really looked that great to begin with. I had hoped we'd get more physical customisation options somewhere down the line, but that wouldn't sell paid cosmetics to cover up the defaults.

Niantic, as a Google adjacent company, likely favours Silicon Valley's predilection for DEI initiatives, and Japan, being a decade or two behind western trends, has had a recent spate of Japanese companies adopting these ideologies in a misguided attempt to "appeal to a modern, global audience". At least that is what their localisation staff tell them, anyway.