I would be surprised if a corporation, risked an intellectual property lawsuit for using someone else’s artwork …even if it’s that corporation’s design in the first place (stuff like that gets complicated, real fast))…think Mr GM may have accidentally crushed your dream.
I for one, welcome the new recolour, it’s voidy, as others have pointed out.
Did I mention how much WoW needs to have a Flying surfboard mount, obtained through PVE?
Blizzard has every right to use the recolor that MrGM has made, as he’s using their model.
recoloring a model doesnt make it his. they dont even have to credit him (even though i wholeheartedly believe that they would.)
hope for dragonflight it will be some new kind of model each season. i mean those are better than nothing, but you can do better blizzard.
Absolutely dissapointed and shocked.
YOU “PROMISED” THE BLUE ONE SINCE 2 YEARS AGO.
So they were finally going to release the BLUE mount that I was waiting for so long, because it fit perfectly with my Frost Dk Transmog ( I grinded S2 elite set for it just for this) and overall theme, and now they give in and make it this weird purple that was nowhere to be seen in Shadowlands.
Guess I’ll skip next season, and probably quit this game for good. Sick of only dissapointments and dreams being crushed. No new mount collector achievs either. So why even get a mount that I will never use.
So we are getting the warlock pet as a mount?
It looks way better but I still want more. Why not consider adding seasonal affix visual indicators that make the mounts truly unique to the season they were earnt? As an example, this seasons affix is encrypted, some floating relics or cipher text forged into the mount would have been so nice.
Looks very nice now, and unique indeed. This also has a small ZM vibe, all good now 
I’d use a brighter purple, or just make it a nice pink color, and silver jewelry (for lack of better word).
Way better.
I personally would have prefered a stronger purple over the more muted one. But that’s just personal preference. Atleast it’s distinct enough now, that I can accept that the new colour is just not for me. I’m sure others while like it.
Looking forward to seeing people on all sorts of maw elementals, rather than all looking the same-ish.
They got you covered. Purple with gold accents. Awesome.
Wish it was silver. 
Did they fix the color of sparkle effect?
I will laugh so hard if they again were to lazy to fix that
That is so much better!!! Thank you
Looks quite cool 
Good change.
I love the purple, silver accessories would have worked as well as the gold, but either way it stands out from the others which is nice.
hahaha nice:)
Massive improvement. This will go amazingly with a transmog for one of my alts.
i will be as lazy as blizzard intern fixing this and copy my comment from mmochamp
"team worked so hard.
johny the intern got tasked to move the colour bar 3 degrees left
_
good job johny - you just saved whole patch
you can clearly see thouhg that johny the intern didnt bother to check because the coulour is so ugly shade of violet"
you can see that i worked as hard on this post as intern johny as i added 2 empty lines and _ to my copied text
bdw this is disgrace blizz
half of year of waiting for reshas of old content and you cannot be bothered to make 1 mount
smol indie company
Some people just want to be angry I guess.
What color you prefer still comes down to personal taste. A color you would like for the mount might be ugly to someone else and vice versa. They just can’t please everyone.
At least the new color is unique enough, that it doesn’t look like the old one unless you put them side by side.
But just because you don’t like the color doesn’t mean it’s lazy.
Me for sure.
(tinfoil hat on)
Tbh, the lazy bit is not the color, was not thinking to go unique from the start. Unless they are in a cycle “we’ll screw up on purpose, wait for the community to rage, fix it to make them happy” as a development roadmap.
(tinfoil hat off )