You know Max, it's kind of disingenuous to try this shit as if it proves anything when you CLEARLY already made up your mind that the new design's your favorite and you were just going to look for excuses to downplay the older ones.
Now granted, human Reptile does look pretty good in M1K. The problem is that his lizard form looks like absolute shit, and it's hilarious to see Max desperately try to pretend Deadly Alliance Lizard Reptile doesn't look MUCH fucking better than the dogshit they're doing now.
Obviously Max just doesn't like Lizard Reptile in general and just prefers him being human with as little Lizard as possible, which is fine. It just irks me when he says shit like "now you see how good we have it now" as if you can't even disagree that new Reptile is the best.
M1K Reptile = Peak human design, shit tier Lizard design IMO.