I'm sincerely not trying to add to a larger negative sentiment about the change.
I wanted to make a pixie for a very long time because I was attracted to the small character model that could flutter around.
However, I knew that the model change was impending so I decided not to just in case. I can only say that I'm really glad that I didn't waste an award on it. I have a friend who deleted their character because of this and I'm certain I would have as well.
This obviously isn't the end of the world and it's entirely purely personal preference.
However,
I strongly feel that the previous model was far superior in terms of what type of fantasy it allowed us to explore. It was visually unique and interesting.
There's no other roleplay environment that I'm aware where you could play anything like it.
Arelith has lost something lovely, unique and interesting in exchange for a blocky backpack with wings attached. I think the better option would have been to simply delete them as an available race for character creation entirely.
I rarely want to express my criticism like this in feedback threads because I understand that there were good reasons why this was adjustment needed to be made. It just wasn't worth what was atmospherically lost.