However, that's roughly where the logic in these things ends. Rathalos being the Protagonist Monstie of the second game also is justifiable by Stories 2 more or less being a revival of Stories as a spinoff. Rathalos having as much focus as he has had so far makes sense since Rathalos is the flagship monster of Monster Hunter as a whole, and the name made sense in the first game considering that, canonically, very young children were responsible for the name ( along with the first game being marketed more towards children as well).
Granted, there is some logic in all of this. That is a lot of Rathalos, all with the same name, and a name that many people simply don't find creative or interesting at that. These are the Protagonist Monstie of the the first game, the Monstie of the protagonist's grandfather in the second game ( more specifically, this one was referred to as Guardian Ratha), and the Protagonist Monstie of the second game. It's hard to talk about some of these issues individually, but a good starting point would be that there is, canonically, a total of three separate Rathalos named Ratha. Many of these issues also either were exacerbated or created by Stories 2 more than Stories 1. Well, there are actually a multitude of issues, which the answers available on the poll likely clued you in on. The first question at hand here is simple: "What exactly is the issue here?".
While I will go into greater detail on each of those issues shortly, I would first like to share the results of a poll on this subject that I posted to the r/MonsterHunterStories subreddit ( and cross-posted into r/MonsterHunter) a little over a week ago in an effort to gauge the community's opinion on the topic. However, despite how the inherent concept of a "Protagonist Monstie" ( which from now on I will be using to refer to any Monstie that fills this central role in the narrative) hasn't been necessarily executed poorly, it has certainly still been somewhat problematic for a number of reasons. It is the name of the Rathalos that acts as our primary companion throughout the main questline of each game, and the focus of much of what happens during those storylines. Ratha a name that most of ( if not all of) us Stories fans are likely very familiar with, regardless of which of the two entries in the Monster Hunter Stories franchise/sub-series/spinoff-series you are more familiar with.