When I was doing the voting I felt the same way. There is no cohesion in the branding. It’s just a hot mess. I say this as an OpenSuSe user and advocate more or less these days

They should have gone with a common design for all the logos. I main tumbleweed and I think this is dumb and confusing to potential newcomers to openSUSE’s distros.

From the article it seems like they’re doing what Mozilla did with all their logos a while ago, they are just getting a sense of what people prefer with the survey, but in the End SUSE will be deciding what the new logos will be.