Not a fan of this redesign. She looks more like a mouse or Sid from Ice Age with big ears than a gargoyle now. I get that they're trying to make her more conventionally cute, but the "ugly cute" vibe that the original design had was much more unique.

I agree. The whole point was they were a garygoyle you know, all those statues on Gothic buildings that are "grotesque monsters"?
This is a heavy over correction I feel from looking at all the fanart of them being cute and maybe playtesters remarking that they're ugly or whatever. But the fact that they were "ugly", that they're not some smooth cute toy design was the appeal.
Hope they don't actually go with this or revert it after enough complaints xd