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>You seem to be the funny case of when standards shift to the point the initially extraordinary/quintessential become baseline/normal. The classics have now become too "vanilla" for your tastes.
>too "vanilla" for my tastes

anon I don't think you know me very well I'm probably one of the most vanilla motherfuckers in the entirety of this thread when it comes to my tastes and what I love the most and I don't even view that as an insult because by God if Harpies are vanilla then you can call me the Lord of Vanillin.
But even if my heart is with Reina and the Harpies I just love Monster Girls as a whole, because to me Monster Girls are art. I have a great fondness for the classics and original species; there's a great beauty in simplicity after all. But I also really like the more fantastical, monstrous or creatively unique girls as well. It all depends on how they stuck the landing.

When it comes to "aliens", the little green dudes are indeed one of the classics, and I don't really have any issues with them in a normal alien line-up because as you said they're very iconic. But the thing is that Monster Girls are best exemplified as a mixture of the human and the fantastical in a manner that perfectly balances the best of both. And you can make that work a lot with a lot of different kinds of aliens. Hell, I'd consider the Xenomorph one of the most classic aliens around.

But trying to do this with ay lmao's is just really difficult because you just end up with 'green skinned human', and they no longer have the look of the original alien. Which I assume is why all of the aliens are wearing literal cosplay outfits that have the iconic alien face on them. But that also works against them because it obscures a lot of how they look too. I can barely see the hands on the greys, which apparently are meant to be like E.T., which would make me like them more.
I don't know if it's 'went too far' or 'didn't go far enough', but I'm just not really endeared to them.