Oh that I agree with, like I said, I like both eastern and western games. But whereas you take (legitimate) issue with people criticising eastern Devs for their mostly beautiful characters I take issue with the generalisation that western Devs make ugly/uglify on purpose their game characters especially when cherry picking specific screen grabs when normally the character looks fine.
Sure, some western game characters are made to look older, more worn etc. (Returnal, TLoU etc.) but I don't have an issue with that either so long as it fits the game/scenario. Like I don't have an issue with stylised eastern characters with sometimes over the top proportions (eg. Dragons Crown, Stellar Blade, cannot wait for that game)
Final Fantasy characters look perfectly fine to me, they fit the style the game is going for and they are instantly recognisable even they they use the typical 3d anime style.