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>the constant influx of fanart and fanmade 'mons limits the direction GF can go with their Pokemon designs?
Fan art is CONFIRMED to affect how they pick finalized designs. We know this from the huge Gamefreak leak that happened. They don't ever release a new mon or form if it looks like fan art. There was a flying evolution for eevee that got cut because the designed looked like something a fan drew.
So fully expect all the new mega forms to be weird and goofing looking. There is already hundreds of "cool" fan art designs for every remotely popular pokemon.