which kitchen layout do you think is best?

my fiancé and I are having a hard time deciding between these two layouts, and he’s letting me have the final decision due to me being the one who’s mainly in the kitchen. you can’t really tell in the first pic but there’s another counter underneath the cabinets on the right.

for the first layout, I like it because it allows us to have more seating space (the four circles on the peninsula/island), while still leaving enough room to open the stove and walk by with no problem. my dilemma with this is, we kind of have a similar set up to this now (smaller) and it’s just not enough counter space for when i get deep into cooking (which is often) as i said earlier tho this place is bigger so i might not realize how much bigger it is.

for the second layout, i love how much counter space there is, i feel like i have much more wiggle room when it comes to countertop appliances (toaster, air fryer, espresso machine, just as examples), and i feel like it makes the kitchen more open, but then there’s the problem of seating. we could put a pretty nice sized table by it (we’re gonna go smaller tho if we do) but i think that it’ll look…. off?????? like the table in the pic is so big and so that’s probably why it looks off to me, we would be doing a smaller table regardless cause it’s just us, but i can’t imagine ANY size table next to it bc i think it’ll look odd since our kitchen opens right into the living room

the last two pics are the only pics I have of the kitchen right now (we are staying in our current home until this one is done being renovated)

please let me know what you guys think and the benefits/cons you see of each layout 😭