[2024] this is the first game I found where the zombie models are more detailed than the main protagonist

Zombie models have all just recently(Circa A21) been redone in high quality and modern techniques; The player model hasn't yet received that pass and may be coming in A22 or A23.

Reason being that the player never really looks at themselves- They do look at zombies constantly.. So which had the priority to happen first was a bit of a no brainer. Additionally the player model requires extra work to be customizable by the player, and may require some more under-the-hood work than the zombies did, so more reason to do it after the zombies.

Originally posted by ulroth: Needs more variety of zombies. Obviously this terrible apocalypse had something to do with the dangers of cloning.

I agree, though the texture variants coming in the next Alpha are at least something.