I suppose that last bit is true, but it's still really odd that they only partially committed to realism rather than fully commit or not commit at all.
I feel like they could have still had Giganotosaurus in the scene, but instead of having it fight the Rex it could have chased off the Quetzalcoatlus. Having it alongside Dreadnoughtus would at least quiet down most of the dino fans who continue to shake their fist at Jurassic Park/World's lack of accuracy
Yutyrannus begs to differ.
Had to fit in the Rex origin story somewhere and setup a new big bad dino. Since they are moving away from the hybrids the list of animals that could match the Rex in size is relatively short and of those Giga probably had the most name recognition. They could have executed it better, sure, but I get why they did it this way.
Yutyrannus is not a Rex though, there is no proof for the Rex itself having feathers conclusively it just has some family members that do which make an argument that it does, but this argument is likely to go on for years like Bronotosaurus until another discovery or overwhelming argument can be made to settle the matter.
The original Jurassic Park featured the most realistic dinosaurs yet seen in film at that time. So it’s unfortunate that Jurassic movies are just now synonymous with inaccurate dinosaurs.
And for the prologue, I’m not sure why you would go through the work of rendering dinosaurs more paleo-accurately just to portray them inaccurately living together.
You could make as lifelike of animals as you want, but if your CGI nature documentary features a polar bear fighting an elephant while kangaroos scamper about, you’re kind of ruining the realism.
To be fair, that wasn't a high threshold to meet back then. Jurassic Park is what really abolished the archaic view of dinosaurs as dumb lizards and look at the old paleo art of the Rex before Jurassic Park and after. Anyhow, if we take into account pronated wrists and whatever the Dilophosaurus is even the first film had its issues. The novel elaborated more on these anomalies in InGen's creatures and the Dilo was still more akin to its real life counterpart than its film counterpart.
Kind of fits thematically given the bioengineering messing with their genetic makeup and most importantly, marketing. Public awareness of dinosaurs is pretty much set by the Jurassic franchise, the general public now clings to those original interpretations of certain species, so they would be fools not to make the most of that. The fact there are dinosaurs with feathers at all is already a big step in the right direction, its helping to educate the public more, its kind of working in reverse order where they know the inaccurate dinosaurs and have to be slowly introduced to more accurate versions.
For new species its way easier to teach the public as they have no frame of reference, for existing species that is where this sort of educating takes place, but must be carefully balanced against how many tickets can be sold and merchandise purchased. That lack of reference for the public is also why they wouldn't know how weird it is for a Giga to fight a Rex; they don't have the frame of reference for the world back then compared to seeing how weird an elephant fighting a kangaroo would be today.
