i liked the idea of it and how it shaped their brand but i think there was a bit of untapped potential there as well and now if it’s time try new things then they can let it go…i would be sad for a bit but im open for the new adventures!! for a korean cb i want to see a cover from them that has their faces, or something that is different compared to the previous ones (not exactly faces but silhouettes maybe? or illustrations as you mentioned) but there is something i should mention:
i think i am more picky about the covers with faces compared to the faceless ones, like it’s such a hit or miss thing in general and i don’t think i trust every creative team with that 😭 so if enough care is not gonna be given i would prefer the same old style with a touch of illustrations and textures instead of the flat vector look

hi! you can check the credits from the magazine's weibo page (https://weibo.com/1664275343/5299881251439154) most of the crew is korean, mua is their in-house one but the others are not exclusive names from bighit

i think it would be nice to see great chinese photographers since he is on the cover of a big chinese magazine but as far as i know often times the crew are similar to other korean magazines since the shootings are mostly done in korea. it happens with several other k-idols and actors so it's not something exclusive to yeonjun. (but well seems like the reason of everyone's fuss is the hair in the red cover, which makes me think they wouldn't have a problem with styling if it wasn't like that so c-side looks extra dramatic to me)

okay i agree that there is lack of care on visual team's side but i think role names gets mixed up sometimes. usually in a txt album there are roles like head of creative, brand experience design and visual creative. the previous head of creative person (sun moon) is not present on this album, new one used to be on the bx team and now their name can be seen on both roles. brand experience team is usually present for things like logo, album and package design, promotional design assets. lastly visual creative team is what we talk about the most, to give an example rakta and sujung’s names were credited here. i believe the order of the names written in credits shows their seniority, though i don’t know if they refer to each other with different role names. but in short there is no specific name in credits for the people here except for visual creative. (someone was shown in visual creative team but judging from her instagram captions it actually evolved from style directing to visual directing) on the other hand this album had a new role and name in credits which is creative director (apart from visual creatives). again i couldn’t find much about them and their past work when i searched it online 😓

i don’t expect these people to have a crazy good relationship with txt or show it off on instagram constantly, it’s a job at the end and very much an exhausting one at that. but i believe the roles in this field and kpop has evolved and the creative team being complementary to music group’s itself became more important. (and though i said i dont ‘expect’ it, it’s still a good feeling when you can see the people behind the works are also proud of them and wants to talk about them)

this answer is again kind of all over the place but in short i don’t like generalizing actions of one person to whole team of 6 especially since i don’t exactly know how do things work there and only talk based on what i see here and there, though i think that txt could definitely benefit more from a visual team who shows more attention or display that attention if it already does exist. lastly every company has their own ways of naming creative teams so while it’s good to distinguish these roles maybe the names doesn’t carry much weight, what matters is being able to work in harmony and showing that to others (fans in this scenario).