Sorry man, but none of this is backed by any proof while being instead super easily disproved. And yet parroted ad nauseam for years.
They didn't at all "made her face look worse", that's just how scanning work and you can see it happen on every single game in history that took advantage of this technology (Stellar Blade didn't use the model face), even Capcom models always look way worse than the original models (most of the time actual professional models).
Here they also had to adapt Ashly Burch performance capture on the entirely different Hannah face.
Again, this is nonsense. All they did compared to the Zero Dawn is adding more polygons and obviously much higher resolution textures and entirely revamped shaders, and on PS5 they were able add Hannah's peach fuzz. Aside from that it's the same exact model.
To me the only
fact here is they took a flat chested female and provided her with a perfect pair of jugs, mascara by default, tons of makeup options, many Photo Mode sexy poses, while making her a canon red hair who swims like a mermaid and is desired by every male (and even some female) in the game world. Way more feminine in her mannerims, poses and animations than RE3R Jill.
I wasn't referring to you by the way, that's just what I saw many times in here. And wasn't even a critique, just an observation of how many users like simple and exaggerated drawings instead of real people.