i guess is "fixing what isn't broken"
baaaaad bad move
It was quite literally broken.
The old model of Francesca was so broken that it was impossible to add textures to it and give it a rig. That's why she looked "flat", she had no skin.
This means that it was impossible to change and every movement of her body had to be hand sculpted.
No custom textures, no animations, twice the work just to move an arm. The model had to be completely destroyed just to close her fist. In the demo the same pose gets reused a bunch of times because of that.
We also received countless critiques about the model. Things that we couldn't fix without remaking it.
With the old model of Francesca there was no way to improve.
Also, the art posted on discord is a work in progress and no scene was remade so far with that model.
Honestly we received quite a lot of different comments on the new model, more positive than negative. If people like it, if it makes the life easier for the artist and if it means that Dreaming One can go on and reach its goal...
Then it's in no way a bad move.