Me too. He's not bad looking as he is in fact, he's still cute in a devilish kind of way, but the original version of him was indeed better for the cute baby face of his was way hotter and that's saying something lol. I believe when it comes to recreating character's appearances and customizations, the dev of any story-based game be it porn content or clean content, needs to be careful not to make a radical decision in changing things especially if it wasn't really necessary to do to begin with. And if they do wanted to offer a change to a character, it would definitely be best to make a poll of some sort for patreons to vote or just simply use their better judgement and leave well enough alone. Nonetheless what's done is done. Hopefully the dev doesn't make a habit of changing things that could eventually have dire consequences in the long run. All in all, one thing I can appreciate so far which is by far the most important, is the dev taking careful time not to be too ambitious with branches and the story plot that goes unfinished like other devs have (That I won't mention here) and end up biting off more than they can chew. So the dev so far has done a good job in this aspect and I hope the dev continues to do so for the game is very unique with a lot of untapped potential and I could see this eventually beating out Lustful Desires as well as it continues to grow in content.
TBH, it doesn't really matter if the dev changing arts, what matters is they need to be consistent and fit into the world / lore.
Like there are a lot of people don't like, meanwhile there're still people appreciate the new YAOI style arts.
It's "working in progress", changes can happen at any time, as long as there's good reason.
Being a porn game just mean there's another aspect you need to consider - are the changes still sexual appealing to your audiences.
BTW, "Community polls" should only be used as "data" and you need to know how to analysis them, rather than "direction" nor "decision" - nobody know better about your game than yourself / yourselves.
A lot of games are ruined by the "Patroen pulls decide the development".