I mean, if I am honest, the one you’re offering as the better option has more of a “piss” color palette than the one you said has it.

Golden colors usually look better when you add an orange tint for the darker shades, when you only add dark to yellow the color may become a weird greenish hue, and will make the yellow lose its shiny/golden color.

With that said though, I still think that the palette/shading the current one has can be improved.