In fact I think I had one row too many teeth pulled out when I was 8 (in preparation).
I think my skull needed to deepen and the treatment prevented that, causing (and worsening) a great many disabilities and ailments through life.
I was told my looks were bad and needed improving (this was not so).
You have used a very strange phrase, "If you are unhappy with how your teeth are you can still get braces". Why would you use such a phrase.
Didn't you realise braces are about more than teeth and that happiness is about more than pleasing other people's false opinions?
I think any malocclusion issue was exaggerated.