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Meaning that you would have thought that God would have created a more blended creation, or that the capacity for change within the created kinds would make it look more blended and gradualistic?...I’m not sure I follow you here.

There is a school of thought in Platonism that says that the Creator would fill all morphospace. I don't understand it terribly well, but the gist of it is that if God loves variety, He would have created all possible forms of life - that there would be no empty but possible niches of living forms.

Now, Platonism is not Christianity, but various Christian thinkers have explored it and think it may be on to something. I don't think there is any reason to suppose God 'had' to fill all morphospace, but it does seem apparent that God produced a wonderful variety of life and delighted in it. If this intuition is correct, we should expect to see 'intermediates' insofar as present life is a subset (due to extinctions) of the original created variety of life. The pattern would not match evolutionism closely, but would superficially look like it if you did not attempt to fit the intermediates into a specific evolutionary framework.

(Attempts to do so would tend to fail, leading to lineages filled with question marks and competing lineages based on conflicting criteria - in other words, just what the evolutionary community is faced with today.)