What would beastfolk races look like if they actually looked as different from their animal as we do from apes?

Please note I am NOT SAYING that anything discussed here NEEDS to happen, it's just a thought experiment/discussion!

There's been discourse about the place of all the beastfolk races in D&D and other fantasy settings forever now, and one of the most common defenses of their not being out of place is that they are just as different from their animal inspiration as humans are from, say, a bonobo or a gorilla. And while I understand and appreciate that defense, it never fully sat right with me, because the vast majority of the depictions of the D&D beastfolk are "just straight up the animal, but made bipedal".

And yes, getting humanoid proportions is absolutely a big change in appearance that makes it clear that, say, a loxodon is not an elephant... but it's the face/head that gets me. Since we're already making these animals into "humanoid races" because we, the real people playing the game, are human, we are taking a human perspective of sapience/physical personhood, and thus the face is very important. The face is basically where "you" are, in terms of how you are perceived. It's your headquarters, your billboard, it's where people look when they talk to you.

If human heads actually fully looked like bonobo or gorilla heads, our relationship with those animals would absolutely be different. So, the fact that loxodon, tabaxi, giff, kenku, tortle, aarakocra, etc. all just fully have normal animal heads makes the problem of them feeling a bit out of place more noticeable to me. Not to the point I don't include them, mind you, I just notice it every once in a while!

Have any of you made the beastfolk races look like anything besides "the animal, but bipedal"? If so, what have you done to change them? I'm very interested to hear people's different approaches to this, because I kind of have no idea how I would change a loxodon's face that wouldn't be utterly stupid, horrifying, and/or too separated from the idea of an elephant.