>>713961624 (OP)Characters that are intended to sell to a modern audience has been distilled to what corpos deem as "cool, cute, or sexy".
If a older woman has me saying "Ooo, mommy!", that's good design. But I don't go for hyper realistic, goblinas, or anime with the smallest "detail of age" like op pic. Not really sure what my aesthetic of choice is, but I can recall good designs between the late PS2 and mid PS3 gen