I'd started unlocking them because they also appear in the race specific home instances as you unlock them and I was so happy to unlock my homestead and see them there too 🥹🥹

I'm still working on unlocking all of the cats and haven't gotten around to the snow leopard cub just yet. I do imagine having something constantly follow you is very annoying..so maybe I'll hold off on obtaining it for now

Pardon me just jumping in but yes! SOTO made a lot of people happy by offering another way to unlock the skyscale. AFAIK though to get the POF mastery stuff you do still have to 'unlock' it that way too