To be fair, I've seen a number of posters with customised avatars that look similar enough to Rich's style that I can't tell the difference.
There's no particular shame in that. The strength of the strip has always been in clever puns and convoluted dialogue, not foreshortening and perspective. I have certainly seen more traditionally-drawn webcomics where the art was much more off-putting for making the effort at anatomical detail and getting it wrong all over. In that context, I think the OOTS' style is something like a (very) scaled-back version of Pixar's reluctance to enter the uncanny valley. (And as someone who's worked on flowcharts, I can say that positioning lines and boxes is more time-consuming than it looks.)
So when I say 'no comment' what I actually mean is 'I don't mind either way'. If I had a problem, you would hear about it.