I doubt Clefairy would have taken off the way Pikachu did. Pikachu is just really well-designed, I'm confident that had it not been the face of the franchise, it'd be a fan favorite like Arcanine. Clefairy is good, but not that good.
That said, I don't think it would have made the anime "suck."
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