How do they look miserable? I guess this person has never interacted with cats before?

yeaa, we have to be careful not to project human emotions to animals, they can be very different. it reminds me of one cat who was strapped in a car seat, with the car going, and the cat had their eyes and mouth large open. many people were like “oooh look how excited it is!” but people who knew cats knew the poor kitty was horrified

Having cats, I can confirm that is the look of highly contented cohabitation. There are visibly no thoughts occurring in either of those heads and that only happens when they’re relaxed 😄