It's purely personal opinion, but I like the new look more. It helps to create a visual structure for the page.

I took the liberty of running an analysis tool - https://pagespeed.web.dev/ - yeah, it's a free one, but it's the one I used on the before & after of my website when I recently moved it to a new platform. What it showed was interesting, because the site gets really great scores on Desktop, but poor ones on mobile devices.

I know about 70% of the customers on my site are now using Android phones, iPhones or tablets, so that might make a difference. The two things that jumped out to me were image sizes optimised for mobile so that phones don't have to do the heavy lifting of resizing them, and some of the image sizes. The vampire-coven image in particular takes a long time to render on mobiles, but I don't know how easy it would be to be able to identify the device being used and serve up different versions.

Something I find really helps move me up in natural search is constantly tinkering with things. A word change here, a new product or page there - something every week. Search engines love to see sites that are maintained , it proves they're not abandoned. Things I'd suggest are to move the "About me" to the right hand end of the header bar, and maybe add a "perils" page so that any budding explorers inspired by your site can be told about the risks and how to avoid them !

I hope that helps ! Overall, I like the site 😀