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The advice you received from Mike did make technical improvements to the image and I certainly respect his expertise.
Speaking on a purely aesthetic level, because of the stronger colour difference between emission and reflection nebula in your first posted version, that image gave me a strong 3D sense and that I was hovering in space hovering near the emission nebula and about to plunge into the hole in the center the reflection nebula. This is purely subjective and related to the focussing differences of various colours in the eyes.
As you followed the expert advice and reduced artifacts that made the image more technically perfect, the later versions begin to look more two dimensional and lack the wonderful 3-dimensionality of your original image.
Noentheless, I'd be happy to have the skills to produce any of the versions. Wonderful job.
Joe
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