I feel like this is a question with... more than a lot of layers, since a lot of my taste ends up giving many people the impression that I'm some sort of "contrarian" individual in general. Sometimes my taste is somewhat predictable, but oftentimes I've gotten more than a plenty odd looks; which is probably something inevitable in a franchise like Pokemon where some Pokemon are all-time adored and others are in varying degrees of obscurity. And I'd say a lot of my taste kinda teeters closer to the latter.

Zubat and Golbat: I've always found those two bats cute and huggable. I've seen all the memes about their encounter rate, and frankly; I never quite cared. Zubat's one of the very few eyeless Pokemon ever and while Golbat loses that trait; I find it endearing in its own right. I particularly like Golbat's clumsy depiction in pre-Gen 6 3D games like Stadium and the Orre games, where it was a big, freakish bat that had to wrap its big wings around its horrid gaping mouth to conceal its disgusting big tongue. (Tangential, but I also feel nostalgia for Crobat's "ugly" pre-Gen 6 model, too. It's teeth being interpreted as a nasty underbite and it's ghastly facial expression is something that I don't think will ever be recreated.)

Object-based Pokemon: They've been around since Gen 1, and I've never had any issue with them. I really don't give a rat's ass if a Pokemon whole-sale resembles an object; I don't think every Pokemon should be either a humanoid or an animal. I have a lot of favorite Pokemon and/or Pokemon I'm fond off that are "objects": Revavroom, Minior, Electrode, Polteageist, Vanilluxe, Garbodor, Alolan-Muk, Minior, Dhelmise, etc.

Dudunsparce: This one is pretty divisive as far as I've seen. And frankly, I feel like a lot of the things that motivate people to dislike this thing kinda miss the point about it and are pretty much falling hook, line and sinker into Game Freak's most brilliant official shitpost, ever. It's not just everyone who wanted it to become a majestic dragon, but really everyone who tries to make it anything other than what it is: I'm including everyone who goes the other route I see and gives Dunsparce a Bug-type affiliation and turns it into some kind of wasp or just an insect in general, as an example. Dunsparce is a very rare and unusual, "interesting" creature, yes. But it's only so rare because it's just a goofy, shy little critter that'd rather be by itself than it being special by virtue of being 'mythical' or something. This is true for its inspiration: the tsuchinoko is a youkai, but is very much not a 'serious' youkai by any means, more a goofy one. It's an elusive, short and fat snake that chirps instead of hisses, defy physics to leap at impossible odds to avoid getting caught, is able to jump twice by bending itself like a spring, too; and it has a taste for alcohol. That's not a majestic or spooky mythical being of Japanese folkore; that's just a derpy, cartoony shut-in who just wants to live life without being harassed... of Japanese folklore. Just look at the little intricacies that Dunsparce itself has: it has wings that aren't too aerodynamic but nonetheless get the job done enough to flee, and it has a big drill tail that allows it to immediately hide in a burrow when given the chance. It's literally adapted to just get the hell away from scary things that want to catch it.
A lot of reactions I see have streamers and other people going "Look how they ruined my boy!" or "That's not an evolution, that's a you again!" But let's be real, does Dunsparce have any ambitions at all? You can see a sort of "I want to be badass/special" kind of motif for things like Magikarp, Feebas, and fellow 'former unevolved misfit' Farfetch'd. But try taking a gaze at Dunsparce's perpetually droopy face and say it secretly desires to be a 'badass'. If anything, Dudunsparce, as the goofy segmented bugger it is, is probably just enough for this modest snakey. It gets a more jam-packed drill to create more spacious and comfy homes for it, and if other Pokemon fall in, it could just use its segmented self as a train to happily ferry those poor Pokemon back. Oh, and it can inflate itself with its segments to blow away actual intruders. That too. (and the animation for it is funny.)
I think the funniest part about Dudunsparce is its index number (not it's Pokedex number): it's actually the first Pokemon that deviates from it's official listing... and it's sandwiched between the Lechonk lines and Tarountula lines, when by comparison most other new evolutions like Kingambit and Annihilape stand at the very end of the index number listings. This implies to me that Dudunsparce was probably planned even before the idea of other Pokemon getting new cross-gen evolutions came up to Game Freak. Which is an idea that really makes me snicker, kekeke.

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