I would love to help you build our new visual identity! I have, in fact, been begging for you to let me help. You haven't been.
You require heavy babysitting to not break things. You follow hyped-up design trends, despite the clear and obvious failures of those trends, and you ignore what we try to teach you. You don't understand the purpose of the things you cut away. (I find this confusing: the designers I've interacted with are all basicallyat least basically competent, but these decisions are blatantly wrong, over and over again.)
Do not use either of these designs. Do not implement any of these proposals. You should know why you cannot use these ideas: we've told you enough times already; and frankly, I'm getting sick of it.
Or if you're not going to involve us, at least do us the dignity of not pretending like you are.