ok.... do you feel similarly about Carbuncle looking like an alien in 8, a fennec fox in 15 and a squirrel in 14?
The Ivalice moogles are still instantly recognizable as moogles
Not really, because before 8 it had only shared a similar design twice (and from a personal view 8 was my first game featuring Carbuncle anyway). Most of the summons
usually share some kind of characteristic (Carbuncle is small with a red stone on his head, Ifrit is a male fiery thing, Shiva is a female ice thing, Ramuh is an old electric dude) but even with those examples they have much less consistency than something like Final Fantasy's premier mascots, moogles and chocobos. They don't even appear in every game and often have big design differences, so you're not trained to expect the consistency as much.
My first reply pointed out specific examples of creatures that are designed with consistency (chocobos, moogles, cactuar, even Marlboro) as opposed to characters that have either never or very rarely shared a design despite the name (virtually most summons/espers/eidolons/esper/gf/
even the term they go by changes, Biggs and Wedge, Cid). My second post linked you to the wiki article that shows 20+ consistent moogle designs from the series and spinoffs with the only exceptions being those from Ivalice.
If you can't understand the point being made and why someone would feel the way myself and others do, it's because of your own lack of willingness to engage with the point. It's like you're trying to find some gotcha that proves I couldn't possibly hold this opinion and be consistent with it, so my opinion must be wrong or something. But maybe it's like just my opinion, and it's well reasoned enough for it to not bother you that people out there hold that opinion.