It could have been worse. We've seen the dark timeline of character designs, and their name is Yasuda. Dear god the characters in Cyber Sleuth look so unbelievably terrible awful.
I think it's too early to judge Tri on anything. We've seen, what, 1/6 of it? I dug it for what it was, a warmup exercise that teased some stuff and got us reacclimatized to the world. It could have been better, but it pushed the right buttons for me. Seeing Alphamon vs Omegamon was the coolest and I cannot wait to see Zudomon/Lilymon/Angemon etc get their Megas. They have an interesting setup and it made me excited to see where they go from there. It was good enough for a first episode for me.