I think Frontier just goes for photogenic/cute animals. So that's why Wolverine, Tasmanian Devil, Baboon, Spectacled Bear, large birds and the like have been ignored up to now in favour of gazelles, sand cat for example which rank lower on the wishlist. They think they know better what animal would be well-received by the general playing public and unfortunately they might not be wrong.
But I too am tired of obscure clone animals making the DLCs, it might have been tolerable when the game was fresher/newer and more popular but there are less and less excuses now. Zoos in real life typically only have so many species of a particular type (like canids) since they want to show off animal diversity.
As for animals not wanted but later becoming more popular, you have to analyse it from a cost benefit perspective. We got say the Lechwe or the Dama Gazelle or the Spectacled Caiman, and many people use these animals compared to other ungulates, gazelle, or crocodile. But the benefit of using these animals instead of other clones is marginal compared to if we got a more unique animal: say the Tasmanian Devil or Manatee or even Blackbuck purely because it's an Asian ungulate.
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