Unimpressed with Image Playground
The avatars were no better. In the animation style they came out super bland, and too smooth. I'm not 17, I'm old, and I don't want a representation to obscure that fact. I kept asking for age or more wrinkles in a futile attempt to force an older picture but gave up after a while. I find the illustration style too fucking ugly to even bother with, so I didn't.
Right now, if forced to use either an Image Playground or a Memoji as an avatar, I'll choose a memoji every time. They look better, are more expressive and actually look a bit like me.
Happily I don't live in imaginary forced Apple avatar land and can continue being an annoyed little beholder eyebeastie instead.