Modern designers are taking Sugimori's teachings to the next level, creating the most ugly abominations possible to make the designs more memorable.

Because he still is the supervisor

The problem is when the organic animal parallels, pokemon, don't look organic (save for ghosts and objectmons). You have big dragon creatures, but their arms is just a cylinder with no visible joints, muscle definition or scale texture.

>told to add more details to oshawott
That's the antithesis of Switch-era Pokemon, they have less.