I know you hate this beak but it’s nothing as offensive as Jedi Rocks, Han’s dodging head or even “No.Noooooooo !”, so yes it was an acceptable change. I won’t mind it getting removed, but I would love the tentacles being animated a better way (the SE tentacles look awful on the other hand…).
I completely agree (aside from the part where you said it was acceptable). Just because some things are much worse doesn’t excuse anything. 😃 We can expect more ridiculous or widely hated changes to be removed. For the beak, I see a relatively large amount of praise (even here) for CGI work that I think is hideous. So it’s a bit of a relief.
New tentacles certainly would be nice for something like Revisited.