I know! I could have 10 normals in my town and I wouldn't repeat any I had in previous games AND I could still create a second a island with all normals again lol.
If you want all the reactions and personality gear based DIY you're going to want more variety. Just like in NL where pwps were personality locked so are diy/reactions.
I like the normal personality to, but if I had 7 villagers of the same personality it would be really repetitive. I can't deal with some of the repetitiveness of the villagers in this game and I have all the personalities and 2 normal/uchis. I can't imagine how samey having 7 of the same type would be.
They really downgraded on their uniqueness this time.