Why are all the Reapers the same shape?

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So if there have been innumerable cycles of the Reapers harvesting and destroying countless civilizations across the galaxy, why are the only ones we see the same shape?

If they were building a human based Reaper in ME2, why is their fleet only composed of ones from their original shape? Shouldn't there be Prothean Reapers? Or whatever the species harvested before them?

I understand using the same shape from a game design/ease of animation standpoint, but canonically speaking shouldn't there be hundreds if not thousands of different Reaper designs?

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