There’s a chance it might. Usually when Blizz updates an animal model they retroactively apply it to all the others out in the old world.
So we could probably expect cheetahs everywhere to not be vanilla anymore. Maybe even all of the various old world cats who use that type of model. The era of their stone age pixels might be over!
Or maybe not. We’ll see, but I’d be surprised if they didn’t use this new upgrade elsewhere too.
I mean . . . did it really look like one before? It’s an Azeroth cheetah, ya know the same land where most lions have saber teeth and every elk has megaloceros antlers . . . also raptor rhino and unicorn horns.