WTF? Gremlins director Joe Dante thinks Grogu is a shameless ripoff of Gizmo.
https://www.cnn.com/2022/07/14/entertainment/gremlins-baby-yoda-stolen-cec/index.html
I would hope that he's just making a joke. Grogu looks like a baby version of Yoda (obviously), who first appeared 4 years before the first Gremlins movie. He really doesn't much look like a Gremlin at all, anyway.