Mojang and their obsession with social media engagement sucks ass. All three of the new mobs are vaguely useful and very cute additions to the game. There's no reason we can't have all three. But they insist on this stupid system so they can have their engagement. I fucking HATE it.
Anyway here's a mod that adds all the mobs that lose the votes to the game: https://modrinth.com/mod/friends-and-foes
Extremely minor complaint, but their presentation of the penguin's utility kinda annoyed me because it's so similar to the existing dolphin effect that it could just be bundled into the dolphin for a cleaner game design. It feels like it was tacked on to make it not seem "useless". But yeah, 100% agree with what you said.