Most of what I see is annoyance at how starters now overwhelmingly start as animals/beasts then turn into humans or human based professions in animal costumes, pretty much since gen 6 (arguably 5) every starter has done this to varying degrees. Incineroar really is the best example; first two forms are cats then it turns into a hulked up wrestler dressed as a cat.
A bit of variety in starters would be nice.

Digimon is pretty different, partly because it's always had a different design style, partly because you have multiple options for what to change into instead of being locked into just one.