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You need to define what population you are referring to. VRChat players overall? /vrg/? Glowing wolfboy Tdas? Newfags, longterm players of either?

We have such a wide array of models now that you can be lazy and just pick a Booth model, upload it as is and still be recognizable if you stick with it, so the need to do so is lower and people are more lenient with it. At least if you don't just take the most popular, new release to upload, because a lot of people switch to those with each release.

On the other hand, because it also is easier than ever to modify and upload models, if you just upload the newest release and don't modify it, you'd both look samey and will probably be looked down upon as either not being creative or, which to me is a worse signal, not being very personally invested.