OK, I guess I was confused by your terminology, so I'm not clear on what you are asking for.
Yes, the two images are certainly different, but I don't see either as obviously "better" than the other.
You have shown us lots of excellent images, so clearly you aren't a beginner, and I think you can trust your own judgement.
If these were mine, I would print them both and put the prints up somewhere where I could see them every day for a few weeks. Eventually I think I would find one version more satisfying than the other, and I might also come up with ideas of how I would like to reprocess it.
For what little it's worth, at this very moment I find the first one more convincing than the second. But that could just be me.
It's definitely worth living with for a while to see what pops.