Why are you dealing with an architect who is so obviously unmotivated? A somewhat committed architect wouldn't release something like that under their name. Or did you give him such strict guidelines that he simply lost interest from the start and just slapped together what you wanted and where you obviously weren’t open to discussion?
I believe the problem was that we made a preliminary draft ourselves for our house contract. This was based on the basic house + our own research. And of course, it also incorporated what was important to us (fireplace, pieces of furniture, etc.). We then took this floor plan to the architect, who only checked once more for extreme major errors and then traced it. So it mainly depends on the skill and experience of the house seller how the design turns out. Ours was more focused on function and not on beauty, or rather didn’t have many big ideas.
It is probably unusual for the architect to have made several designs on his own initiative, or it would have cost a lot of time and money.
Honestly: for a house like that, not a single euro would be worth it to me.
Of course, there are more brilliant designs, but you always have to look at the surroundings of the plot, where you can put windows and where not. I would also have liked a southwest corner window, but then the neighbors would constantly be looking in. You then have to weigh beauty versus function. Dormers could also have been done, but personally, I don’t find them very beautiful.