>>295723
The executives sucked dick, they combined gruesome/serious with cute and we got garbage like Owlicious, the diamond dogs and a few other ugly looking animals.
Notice how the final designs try to give Discord some proportions and the idiot executives+animators just keep giving him that cheap S-shaped body because they don't give a shit about quality assurance. Same problem with the original expressions vs Dhx/Vogel's expressions.
If the ponies were as unappealing as Hasbro's suggestions/mandates then nobody would have watched MLP and I mean nobody.
Anyone could make a better cartoon show than a bunch of autistic manchildren with objectively degenerate tastes.