Most SE mobile games have an incredibly long shelf life, which people don't get because they don't look at the broader picture and see that your average gacha doesn't even last a year
Like All the Bravest of all things barely didn't make it a decade, and Record Keeper is still going in Japan after just celebrating its 11th anniversary. But people latching onto ideas that aren't reflective of reality isn't anything new for FF
My wild speculation (and immediate worry) with all the background art is that the game's gimmick is the characters being in a modern day setting with character design changes to match. So in this case wearing cat ears instead of a giant cat hood
That was Savers, where digimon went on rampages because they got stuck in the human world because they didn't know what was going on and meanwhile you had human scientists performing digimon eugenics.
They created one last patch a while ago that was basically one big shitpost and caused most people to give up on it. And now they're adding another character out of nowhere and also adding a new mechanic that might just make the game even worse
And Angewomon had her whole deal become sexy catfighting with Lady Devimon, to the point where it happened twice in the anime and much later they got a whole jogress built around the concept with Mastemon