Thread:Rodericky/@comment-134861-20200216190820/@comment-4370375-20200216210604

Pegasusmon and Galgomon at least are directly drawing from their previous stages since that was a design motif that was being implemented at the time of 02 that carries over into the modern day with Digimon like Herissmon.

Hell there's even an in-universe reason for Pegasusmon since Armor Digivolution in 02 was depicted as literally the partner Digimon wearing the Digimentals as actual armor hence why charactiristics of the base stages carry over into the Armor stages as seen with Flamedramon.

And while Shurimon and Armor level Digimon that did not appear in 02 apart from V-mon's Armor stages were looser examples of this, I do see why this user wrote the descriptions the way they did even though the design descriptions should be as independant as possible for the reason you already gave.