Are ball joints ugly?

There are some joints that I don’t like from certain companies. Like I hate the way some elbows and knees look when bent or how some body sculpts have more bulbous joints. So I can see why someone who isn’t used to articulated dolls would find them ugly.

 

Perhaps this, as in many other aspects, is a matter of taste. Some people have a very specific sense of beauty. There is also a possibility that if someone cannot stand the sight of joints at all, then they have some kind of phobia or something similar. We all had different experiences in our lives and you never know how it could affect our perception of different things.
Therefore, it is difficult to advise someone who does not like the look of the joint at all, if I myself find them extremely charming. After all, it is they who make these dolls the way they are. This of course does not change the fact that I may not like joints in any particular version. Although even then I can get used to them, if they perform their role well and are sufficiently movable.

 

Again, a matter of taste, but under the impression of the photos found today, I want to add that if something scares me, it’s blurring of joints in photoshop.
I don't want to offend anyone at all, people try to make photos the way they want them to be. But without the joints, the doll starts to look so unnatural. As if it is losing what makes it itself (i know i already said that). I am dropped into the uncanny valley every time i see blurred joints.
But maybe joints themselves make people who don’t like them feel something similar.