Forge 1.19.2 using EMI + JEI, version 1.0.0

I'm not entirely sure but this might cause a potentially new variant to be picked for rendering (each tick) resulting in this:
https://streamable.com/ktnsmt

You could create the entity and hold it for 5 seconds (100 ticks) (or 3 seconds) and then create a new one as an alternative for showing variants

(Also is it intentional that the entity is looking in the opposite direction of the cursor?)

Yeah, the mob rendering needs some polishing